By courtesy of:
Fuke Wang and Guillermo C. Bazan*
J. AM. CHEM. SOC. 2006, 128, 15786-15792
and from Cao’s group:
Synthesis and properties of a novel water-soluble anionic polyfluorenes for highly sensitive biosensors
Fei Huang, Xiaohui Wang, Deli Wang, Wei Yang, Yong Cao*
Polymer 2005, 46, 12010–12015
and
Synthesis and Characterization of aWater-Soluble Carboxylated Polyfluorene and Its Fluorescence Quenching by Cationic Quenchers and Proteins
Yong Zhang, Bin Liu, and Yong Cao
Chem. Asian J. 2008, 3, 739 – 745
and nonionic polyfluorene from Wang’s group:
Synthesis and characterization of a novel water-soluble block copolymer with a rod–coil structure
Zhi-Jian Zhang, Liang-Liang Qiang, Bing Liu, Xu-Qiong Xiao, Wei Wei, Bo Peng, Wei Huang
Materials Letters 2006, 60, 679–684
and the similar one:
Fluorescent Nanoparticles Comprising Amphiphilic Rod-Coil Graft Copolymers
Jun Hong Yao, Khine Yi Mya, Lu Shen, Bei Ping He, Lv Li, Zhao Hui Li, Zhi-Kuan Chen, Xu Li, and Kian Ping Loh
Macromolecules 2008, 41, 1438-1443
and
Novel Water-soluble Light-emitting Materials Prepared by Noncovalently Bonded Self-assembly
Liang-Liang Qiang, Qu-Li Fan, Zhun Ma, Zhe Zheng, Yun-Yun Wang, Guang-Wei Zhang, and Wei Huang*
Chemistry Letters 2005, 34, 1164
and the very first paper on end-capping polyfluorene:
End-Functionalization of Poly(2,7-fluorene): A Key Step toward Novel Luminescent Rod-Coil Block Copolymers
D. Marsitzky, M. Klapper, and K. Mullen*
Macromolecules 1999, 32, 8685-8688
and
Design and Synthesis of a New Conjugated Polyelectrolyte as a Reversible pH Sensor
Qingling Xu, Lingling An, Minghui Yu, Shu Wang*
Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2008, 29, 390–395