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Mechanical Nanosensor Based on FRET within a Thermosome: Damage-Reporting Polymeric Materials†

  1. Nico Bruns Dr.1,2,
  2. Katarzyna Pustelny1,
  3. Lisa M. Bergeron Dr.1,
  4. Timothy A. Whitehead Dr.1,
  5. Douglas S. Clark Prof.1

Article first published online: 28 APR 2009

DOI: 10.1002/anie.200900554

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Volume 48, Issue 31, pages 5666–5669, July 20, 2009

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Bruns, N., Pustelny, K., Bergeron, Lisa M., Whitehead, Timothy A. and Clark, Douglas S. (2009), Mechanical Nanosensor Based on FRET within a Thermosome: Damage-Reporting Polymeric Materials. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48: 5666–5669. doi: 10.1002/anie.200900554

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, 201 Gilman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA), Fax: (+1) 510-643-1228 http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/clarkgrp/

  2. 2

    Current address: Dept. of Chemistry, University of Basel (Switzerland)

  1. †

    We are indebted to Prof. Jeffrey Urbach (Georgetown University) for helpful discussions and assistance in preparing the manuscript. We are grateful to Prof. Anthony R. Clarke and Dr. M. Giulia Bigotti (School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol (UK)) for a gift of the plasmid that encodes the native THS. We thank Holly L. Aaron at the Berkeley Molecular Imaging Center for assistance with the confocal and FLIM microscopy, as well as Prof. Jean M. Fréchet and Prof. Carolyn R. Bertozzi for the use of their instrumentation. The research described in this article was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-07-1-0116). FRET=fluoresence resonance energy transfer.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 15 JUL 2009
  2. Article first published online: 28 APR 2009
  3. Manuscript Received: 29 JAN 2009

Funded by

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Grant Number: FA9550-07-1-0116

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