Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Synthesis of silica protected photoluminescence QDs and their applications for transparent fluorescent films with enhanced photochemical stability

Changhua Zhou, Huaibin Shen, Hongzhe Wang, Weiwei Xu, Mao Mao, Sujuan Wang and Lin Song Li



In this paper, we have demonstrated a novel and simple way to prepare transparent composite fluorescent films by using poly (acrylic acid) co-polymer as a matrix and silica coated photoluminescence (PL) quantum dots (QDs) as light-emitting materials. The strategies include preparing aqueous amphiphilic oligomer (polymaleic acid n-hexadecanol ester, PMAH) modified QDs, encapsulating the aqueous QDs in silica with a modified Stöber method and fabricating the QD–PMAH–SiO 2 –polymer composite fluorescent films with a spin-coating method. The obtained light-emitting thin films were transparent under room light and showed bright red, green and deep-blue light under the irradiation of UV light. The PL intensity of the composite films increased incrementally with the number of layers and the concentration of QD–PMAH–SiO 2 within each film. A white light emitting film was also fabricated by combining the silica coated red, green and deep-blue QDs in a proper ratio. More...



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