abstract
Nanosized semiconductor particles are of great scientific and technological interest because of their size-dependent electronic and optical properties. Semiconductor nanocrystals have been investigated, for example, as nano-fillers for diverse polymer matrices in order to produce new optically active materials. Here we report, for the first time, results concerning the preparation of nanocomposites made of ZnO nanocrystals (NCs) incorporated in the co-polymer poly-{trans-[RuCl2(vpy)(4)]/sty (sty = styrene and vpy = 4-vinylpyridine). In a first step, the co-polymer was prepared by reaction of trans-[RuCl2(vpy)(4)] with styrene. Then, organically capped ZnO NCs and poly-{trans-[RuCl2(vpy)(4)]/sty} were mixed in CH2Cl2 to produce cast films of the nanocomposites after evaporation of the solvent (ex situ method). The properties of these materials were compared to those of nanocomposites obtained by in situ polymerization in the presence of ZnO NCs.
keywords
ZNO QUANTUM DOTS; SCANNING-ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY; EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; RAMAN-SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; INTERCALATION; NANOCRYSTALS; SILICATES
subject category
Chemistry
authors
Segala, K; Dutra, RL; Franco, CV; Pereira, AS; Trindade, T
our authors
Angela Sofia dos Santos Pereira
Post-doc Fellowship
Tito Trindade
Full professor
Tito Trindade
Full professoracknowledgements
K. S. thanks CNPq for financially supporting this project and for a research fellowship. The authors would also like to acknowledge the financial support from the Universidade de Aveiro and FCT (Project PTDC/QUI/67712/06).