THOMAS KIETZKE, DIETER NEHER*, KATHARINA LANDFESTER*, RIVELINO MONTENEGRO, ROLAND GÃœNTNER AND ULLRICH SCHERF*
Nature Materials 2003, 2, 408-14
and the first paper about preparing nanoparticles by miniemulsion approach:
The Generation of Nanoparticles in Miniemulsions
Katharina Landfester*
Adv. Mater. 2001, 13, 765-8
and making SPNs by using this approach:
Semiconducting Polymer Nanospheres in Aqueous Dispersions Prepared by Miniemulsion Process
Katharina Landfester*, Rivelino Montenegro, Ullrich Scherf*, Roland Guntner, Udom Asawapirom, Satish Patil, Dieter Neher*, and Thomas Kietzke
Adv. Mater. 2002, 14, 651-5
and OLED making:
Organic Light-Emitting Devices Fabricated from Semiconducting Nanospheres
Thomeas Piok, Stefan Gamerith, Christoph Gadermaier, Harald Plank, Franz P. Wenzl, Satish Patil, Rivelino Montenegro, Thomas Kietzke, Dieter Neher*, Ullrich Scherf*, Katharina Landfester*, and Emil J. W. List*
Adv. Mater. 2003, 800-4
and recent development:
Inkjet printed polymer light-emitting devices fabricated by thermal embedding of semiconducting polymer nanospheres in an inert matrix
Evelin Fisslthaler, Stefan Sax, Ullrich Scherf, Gernot Mauthner, Erik Moderegger, Katharina Landfester, and Emil J. W. List
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 2008, 92, 183305-7
and Soft Matter cover paper:
Printing functional nanostructures: a novel route towards nanostructuring of organic electronic devices via soft embossing, inkjet printing and colloidal self assembly of semiconducting polymer nanospheres
Evelin Fisslthaler, Alexander Blumel, Katharina Landfester, Ullrich Scherf and Emil J. W. List*
Soft Matter 2008, 4, 2448–2453
In terms of optoelectronic application by virtue of nano-particle/surface, in parallel to Alivasato’s quantamum dots (0D) and Lieber’s nanowire (1D) for inorganic materials, research on low dimensional organic materials is rising (see another post), including study on polymer nanoparticles blogged here.
The following paper described another way to make polymer nanoparticles without stabilizer but in very diluted form:
Properties and Thermochromic Behavior in Poly(substituted thiophene) Nanoparticles
Naonori Kurokawa, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Nobuaki Hirota, Kenji Hyodo, and Hiroshi Masuhara*
ChemPhysChem 2004, 5, 1609-15
and this following paper presented a modified approach:
Preparation and Encapsulation of Highly Fluorescent Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles
Changfeng Wu, Craig Szymanski, and Jason McNeill*
Langmuir 2006, 22, 2956-2960
and a recent update:
Energy Transfer in a Nanoscale Multichromophoric System: Fluorescent Dye-Doped Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles
Changfeng Wu, Yueli Zheng, Craig Szymanski, and Jason McNeill*
J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 1772-81
and application for O2 sensing:
Ratiometric Single-Nanoparticle Oxygen Sensors for Biological Imaging
Changfeng Wu, Barbara Bull, Kenneth Christensen, and Jason McNeill*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2741–2745
and encapsulating quantum dots:
Photoluminescent Polymer/Quantum Dot Composite Nanoparticles
Steven C. Farmer and Timothy E. Patten*
Chem. Mater. 2001, 13, 3920-3926