FLUORESCENT ORGANIC NANOFIBRILS AS SENSORY MATERIALS FOR EXPLOSIVES DETECTION
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Nov 15, 2012
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Mar 14, 2012
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Apr 27, 2007
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A class of fluorescent, organic nanofibrils, and particularly the films comprising entangled piling of these nanofibrils exhibiting effective quenching of their fluorescence upon exposure the vapor of explosives is disclosed. A sensor and a method for sensing the explosives vapor and other volatile organic compounds is disclosed, including the explosives taggants through the modulation of the fluorescence of the nanofibril film and the electrical conductivity of the nanofibrils. A development of synthetic methods is disclosed, such as protocols and techniques that lead to the production of various arylene-ethynylene macrocycle (AEM) molecules, which consist of a shape-persistent, toroidal scaffold in planar conformation, with minimal ring strain and highly tunable ring sizes (from 0.5 nm to above 10 nm). An approach to optimization of the one-dimensional molecular arrangement along the long axis of the nanofibril is also disclosed, which provides increased exciton migration and charge transport (via pi-electronic delocalization).
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