Fluorescence resonance energy transfer between phenanthrene and PAMAM dendrimers.
We describe herein an adsorption-induced energy transfer between phenanthrene, a major environmental pollutant, and a fluorescently labeled dendrimer acting as a host molecule. We find experimentally that such energy transfer is the most efficient at a solvent pH of 8 and for a phenanthrene ratio dendrimer molar ratio of 1 ratio 2. Using molecular dynamics simulations we show that the strongest bi