Publications by authors named "Chunlan Xiang"

Poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) brushes coated onto silica nanoparticles have been widely utilized in bioassays due to their abilities of providing favorable microenvironments and ensuring good biological activities for biomolecules. However, traditional PAA brushes are synthesized by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization. Hence, it is generally difficult to control and characterize the molecular weight of the PAA brushes, which may depress the reproducibility and bring more uncertain results.

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Novel fluorescent organic nanoparticles (FONs) composed of an arbitrarily selected organic dye (C2) and an amphiphilic triblock copolymer (Pluronic F127) have been designed and constructed. The as-prepared C2-F127 FONs display uniform morphology with a diameter of around 300 nm and strong orange fluorescence with an emission maximum at 561 nm. When C2-F127 FONs are utilized as a fluorescent probe for detecting dopamine, a significant fluorescence quenching can be observed.

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A thermoresponsive fluorescent polymer gel with lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phase transition has been prepared by cooperating conjugated fluorene homopolymer poly(2,7-(9,9-di(8-di(2-picolyl)aminooctyl))fluorene) (PPAOF) and small organic dye sulforhodamine B (SRB) or its sodium salt (SRB-Na). The sol-gel phase transition originates from the electrostatic interactions between the protonated pyridyl/amino groups in PPAOF and the sulfonic groups in the organic dye molecules, as revealed by FTIR, variable-temperature H NMR spectroscopies, and cyclic voltammetry measurements. Consequently, the LCST value can be finely controlled by simply tuning the component concentrations.

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Two series of regioisomeric luminophores that contained a dithieno[2,3-a:3',2'-c]phenazine (DTP) unit as an electron acceptor have been designed and synthesized. To investigate the effect of substitution pattern on the optoelectronic properties of these luminophores, electron donors (N,N-dihexylaniline or N,N-dihexyl-4-vinylaniline) were incorporated at the 2,5-, 8,11-, and 9,10-positions of the DTP unit. We found that the optoelectronic properties of the regioisomeric luminophores were greatly affected by the substitution pattern: functionalization at the 8,11-positions of the DTP unit was superior to the other two substitution patterns in extending the effective π-conjugation and strengthening the intramolecular charge-transfer interactions.

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To study the influence of fluorinated surfaces and biomimetic surfaces on the improvement of the blood compatibility of polymers, three monomers containing a fluorinated tail and/or phosphorylcholine groups were designed and synthesized, and were then introduced into polyurethanes based on 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI), poly(tetramethylene glycol) (PTMG) and 1,4-butanediol (BDO) via end-capping. The bulk and surface characterization of the polyurethanes was carried out by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis (XPS), atomic force microscope (AFM), and water contact angle measurements. The results indicate that the fluorocarbon chains can drive the phosphorylcholine groups to aggregate at the surface of polyurethane, and the two components show spontaneous arrangement to adapt to the environment when in contact with water.

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