Controllable fabrication of stimuli-responsive fluorescent silica nanoparticles using a tetraphenylethene-functionalized carboxylate gemini surfactant

• DOI: 10.1039/c9tc03732b
• Publication Date: 2019-09-16T10:23:36Z
• Authors: Saisai Yan; Zhinong Gao; Jia Han; Zhengqin Zhang; Fei Niu; Yingfang Zhang
• Keywords: Carboxylate

A fluorophore-free green synthetic strategy was presented for the preparation of stimuli-responsive FSNs, which could be further tuned using N₁₆-TPE-N₁₆.