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The objective of this work was to apply an organic dye, tetraphenylporphrin (TPP), to probe the aggregation state, microviscosity, and diffusion dynamics of dye molecules within the interior microenvironment of conjugated polymer poly[(9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-2,7-diyl)-co-(2,5-p-xylene)] nanoparticles (PFX NPs) which should open up further prospects in designing new porphyrin based nanoparticle materials and improve the knowledge of the better design of the nanophotonic devices based on dye-doped polymer NPs. This designed, aggregation-free TPP-doped PFX NPs system, exhibited remarkably high Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) efficiency, leading to a potential application as a light harvesting system or a loadable drug carrier. To this end, different concentrations of TPP were doped into PFX NPs, prepared using a reprecipitation method. To compare TPP in organic solvent with TPP within the NP microenvironment, a successful doping of TPP into PFX NPs and no TPP aggregation formed inside of the NPs were ...