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ArticleBiosensors2026

Creating Semiconducting Polymer Dots with Enhanced Performance Through a Simple Mixed Antisolvent Approach.

Dingshi Xu, Xuehan He, Yi Zhao, Jiasi Wang, Lei Chen

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Article in Biosensors, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Dingshi XuGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Sensor Technology and Biomedical Instrument, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Campus, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Xuehan HeSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shenzhen Campus, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Yi ZhaoGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Sensor Technology and Biomedical Instrument, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Campus, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Jiasi WangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Sensor Technology and Biomedical Instrument, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Campus, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Lei ChenGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Sensor Technology and Biomedical Instrument, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Campus, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6935-8340

Funding

Key Laboratory of Sensing Technology and Biomedical Instruments of Guangdong Province 2020B1212060077Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province 2025A1515010401Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen City JCYJ20240813151023030the Guangdong Pearl River Talen Program 2023QN10C562the Shenzhen Medical Research A2303010
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Abstract

We present an optimized method for producing semiconducting polymer dots using a water-ethanol mixed antisolvent during nanoprecipitation. Compared to conventional Pdots made with pure water as the antisolvent, these newly produced Pdots exhibit simultaneously enhanced fluorescence efficiency and stability of particle size and emission spectra. These findings should be mainly attributed to an improved core-shell Pdots nanostructure formed by a sequential nanoprecipitation process. It offers Pdots a purer, more compact, and hydrophobic inner core, coated with a greater number of hydrophilic polyethylene glycol shells. This viewpoint is further reinforced by Förster energy-transfer efficiency in a fluorescence donor-acceptor Pdots system. The novelly prepared Pdots can better encapsulate small-molecular cargoes and more efficiently bioconjugate to targets. Consequently, it demonstrates improved specific immunofluorescence staining of microtubule structures in living cells.

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PolymersQuantum DotsSemiconductorsFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferNanostructuresParticle SizePolyethylene GlycolsSolventsWaterPolyethylene GlycolsPolymersSolventsWaterantisolventcore–shellFörster energy transfernanoprecipitationsemiconducting polymer dots

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PMID42345864
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