Fluorescence ON-OFF switching using micelle of stimuli-responsive double hydrophilic block copolymers: Nile Red fluorescence in micelles of poly(acrylic acid-b-N-isopropylacrylamide)

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• 作者：Min Min Yee^a ; Miyabi Tsubone^a ; Takuya Morita^a ; Shin-ichi Yusa^b ; Kenichi Nakashima^a ; ^{nakashik@cc.saga-u.ac.jp" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Fluorescence ; ON&ndash ; OFF switching ; Nile Red ; Stimuli-responsive ; Polymeric micelle
• 刊名：Journal of Luminescence
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：176
• 期：Complete
• 页码：318-323
• 全文大小：1018 K

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The dual-mode fluorescence ON–OFF switching of Nile Red (NR) by using stimuli-responsive polymeric micelle of poly(acrylic acid-b-N-isopropylacrylamide) (PAA-b-PNIPAM) has been studied. PAA-b-PNIPAM, one of double hydrophilic block copolymers, is known to form PNIPAM-core/PAA-corona micelles in aqueous solutions when the temperature of the solution is elevated up to the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PNIPAM block. It also forms PAA-core/PNIPAM-corona micelles when the anionic PAA block is charge-neutralized with cationic cetyltrimethylammonium ion. Fluorescence properties of NR in the micelles are elucidated by observing various fluorescence parameters such as intensity, polarization, and quantum yield. It is found that the fluorescence intensity is negligibly low (OFF-state) when PAA-b-PNIPAM exists as a form of unimer, whereas it is remarkably enhanced (ON-state) when the PNIPAM-core or PAA-core micelles are formed. These results demonstrate that a novel fluorescence ON–OFF switching system can be constructed by using PAA-b-PNIPAM micelles and NR.