Authors: Sapana Jadoun Vivek Sharma S M Ashraf Ufana Riaz
Publish Date: 2017/03/06
Volume: 295, Issue: 4, Pages: 715-724
Abstract
Doping is one of the most facile techniques adopted to improve the optoelectronic properties of conducting polymers The present preliminary work reports for the first time chemical doping of poly1napthylamine PNA with 5amino23dihydro14phthalazinedione widely known as luminol to study its influence on the spectral morphological and optical properties of PNA PNA was doped with luminol in acidic basic and neutral media The neutral polymer and its doped forms were characterized using FTIR UVvisible XRD and TEM analyses FTIR studies confirmed doping of PNA by luminol while UVvisible and fluorescence studies revealed the changes in the electronic structure of PNA upon doing Confocal microscopy revealed intense red emission confirming that the polymers could be used for near infrared fluorescence imagingThe corresponding author Dr Ufana Riaz wishes to acknowledge the DSTSERB for granting major research projectwide sanction number SB/S1/PC070/2013 The coauthor Mrs Sapana Jadoun is thankful to DSTSERB for granting Junior Research Fellowship under the said project The authors also acknowledge the SAIF Facility at All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS New Delhi India for TEM analysis and the Advance Instrumentation Research Facility AIRF at JNU Delhi India for the Confocal Analysis
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