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(18) Pinto, M. R.; Kristal, B. M.; Schanze, K. S. A Water-Soluble
Poly(phenylene ethynylene) with Pendant Phosphonate Groups.
Synthesis, Photophysics, and Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Films.
Langmuir 2003, 19, 6523−6533.
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(19) Tan, C.; Atas, E.; Muller, J. G.; Pinto, M. R.; Kleiman, V. D.;
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Schanze, K. S. Amplified Quenching of a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte
by Cyanine Dyes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 13685−13694.
(20) Jiang, H.; Taranekar, P.; Reynolds, J. R.; Schanze, K. S.
Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Synthesis, Photophysics, and Applica-
tions. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 4300−4316.
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We thank the United States Department of Energy (Grant DE-
FG02-03ER15484) for support of this work.
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