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Nanoprobe Diffusion in Poly(Vinyl-alcohol) Gels and Solutions: Effects of pH and Dehydration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2014

Hacène Boukari ,
Candida Silva ,
Ralph Nossal  and
Ferenc Horkay
Hacène Boukari
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Engineering, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901
Candida Silva
Affiliation:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
Ralph Nossal
Affiliation:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
Ferenc Horkay
Affiliation:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Abstract

We report fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) measurements of the translational diffusion of two fluorescent nanoprobes, rhodamine (R6G) and carboxytetramethylrhodamine (TAMRA), embedded in poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) solutions and gels. The diffusion coefficient was measured as a function of the PVA concentration and pH. Furthermore, we designed and built an optical chamber to determine the diffusion coefficient of the nanoprobes within the PVA solutions and gels subjected to controlled dehydration. We find that 1) lowering pH causes an apparent slowing down of the diffusion of the nanoprobes, 2) increase of PVA concentration and crosslink density also induce slowing down of both nanoprobes, and 3) dehydration induces systematic decrease of the diffusion of TAMRA in both solutions and gels. Taken together, these results demonstrate that transient physical interactions between the nanoprobes and the PVA linear polymers have a significant effect upon nanoprobe diffusion.

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diffusionpolymersol-gel
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1622: Symposium E – Fundamentals of Gels and Self-Assembled Polymer Systems , 2014 , pp. 135 - 145
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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