Thermoresponsive silver/polymer nanohybrids with switchable metal enhanced fluorescence.
journal contribution
posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00authored byJingquan Liu, Aihua Li, Jianguo Tang, Rui Wang, Na Kong, Thomas P Davis
In this communication we describe a new approach to the fabrication of fluorescent silver/polymer nanohybrids with thermo-switchable metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF). By manipulating a soft polymer spacer between the silver nanoparticles and the fluorophores a tunable MEF was achieved.