Journal
POLYMER
Volume 51, Issue 6, Pages 1363-1369Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2009.05.003
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Nanocomposite; Silver nanoparticles; Eosin
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A silver-acrylate nanocomposite was prepared using a novel one-pot strategy involving eosin dye as visible sensitizer and an amine derivative as radicals' source. The mechanism highlighted by steady state photolysis and time-resolved absorption spectroscopy lies on the initial formation of a strong ion-pair complex between eosin and Ag(+). Upon visible irradiation, the excited triplet state of the metal complex efficiently abstracts a hydrogen atom from the amine and produces an alpha-aminoalkyl radical In acrylate monomer matrix. such a strong reactive species initiates a free radical photopolymerization and also provides the reduction of the silver cation Through this 'in-situ' fabrication method, the kinetics formation of the nanocomposite and its detailed structural analysis are characterized by UV-visible, real-time FTIR absorption spectroscopy and by transmission electron microscopy. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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