Article pubs.acs.org/journal/abseba
Fluorescent-Tagged Biodegradable Polycaprolactone Block Copolymer FRET Probe for Intracellular Bioimaging in Cancer Cells Bhagyashree Kulkarni and Manickam Jayakannan* Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India S Supporting Information *
ABSTRACT: The present investigation reports a new fluorophore-tagged biodegradable polycaprolactone (PCL) block copolymer FRET-probe for intracellular imaging in cancer therapy. A hydroxyl functionalized π-conjugated oligophenylenevinylene (OPV) chromophore was tailor-made, and it was incorporated in a t-butyl ester substituted polycaprolactone block copolymer via ring opening polymerization. This blue-luminescent OPV-PCL triblock self-assembled as
