Fabrication of Photoluminescent Quantum Dot Thiol-yne Nanocomposites via Thermal Curing or Photopolymerization.

ABSTRACT: Strong, flexible, and transparent materials have garnered tremendous interest in recent years as materials and electronics manufacturers pursue devices that are bright, flexible, durable, tailorable, and lightweight. Depending on the starting components, polymers fabricated using thiol-yne chemistry have been shown to be exceptionally strong and/or flexible, while also being amenable to modification by the incorporation of nanoparticles. In the present work, novel ligands were synthesized and used to functionalize quantum dots (QDs) of various diameters. The functionalized QDs were then incorporated into thiol-yne prepolymer matrices. These matrices were subsequently polymerized to form QD thiol-yne nanocomposite polymers. To demonstrate the versatility of the fabrication process, the prep

SUBMITTER: Stewart MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6641478 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature