Flourescent liquid pyrene derivative-in-water mircoemulsions

Hollamby, M; Danks, AE; Schnepp, Z; Rogers, SE; Hart, S; Nakanishi, T.

doi:10.1039/C6CC01517D

Flourescent liquid pyrene derivative-in-water mircoemulsions

Hollamby, M; Danks, AE; Schnepp, Z; Rogers, SE; Hart, S; Nakanishi, T.

Authors

Martin Hollamby m.hollamby@keele.ac.uk

AE Danks

Z Schnepp

SE Rogers

Sarah Hart s.r.hart@keele.ac.uk

T. Nakanishi

Abstract

A fluorescent liquid pyrene derivative with a high fluorescence quantum yield (65%) in the bulk state is reported. With this as the sole oil phase, stable luminescent oil-in-water microemulsions have been prepared. Increasing the loading of liquid pyrene swells the droplets, as detected by small-angle neutron scattering. These larger droplets have a greater proportion of pyrene excimer emission contribution in their photoluminescence spectra, which leads to a red shift in the chromaticity of the emission.

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 13, 2016
Publication Date	May 13, 2016
Journal	Chemical Communications
Print ISSN	1359-7345
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	52
Issue	46
Pages	7344-7347
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC01517D
Publisher URL	http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6CC01517D