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MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 217, Issue 5, Pages 664-671Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500323
Keywords
CdSe/CdS-polymers; fluorescence; QDs-azo initiator; versatile approach
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51363019]
- Gansu Natural Science Foundation of China [1308RJZA120]
- Natural Science Foundation Project of CQ CSTC [cstc2012jjA50021, cstc2012jjA50010]
- Youth Fund Promotion Plan of Northwest Normal University [NWNU-LKQN-12-5]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20136203120002]
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A novel and versatile approach to the preparation of multitype polymers brushes on the quantum dots surface is reported. In this method, an azo initiator is first immobilized covalently onto CdSe/CdS particle surface by reacting with the 4,4'-Azobis (4-cyanovaleric acid) through an ester linkage. CdSe/CdS nanoparticles with polymer brushes (CdSe/CdS-polymers) of different properties, including hydrophilic polyacrylamide, poly(acrylic acid), and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone); hydrophobic oleophilic poly(vinyl acetate), poly(methyl acrylate), and poly(methyl methacrylate); polystyrene with conjugate group; and polyacrylonitrile with strong polarity group, are synthesized by one approach (the surface-initiated radical poly merization technique), respectively. The structures and properties of CdSe/CdS-polymers reveal that the CdSe/CdS-azo initiator has excellent ability to initiate various kinds of vinyl monomers and these synthetic CdSe/CdS-polymers exhibit good stability and can emit multiple colors from the emission 405 to 569 nm. Moreover, CdSe/CdS-polymers brushes show characteristic micromorphologies. Such strategy provides a platform to achieve nanocomposites with different properties by a new CdSe/CdS-azo initiator through the simple conventional radical polymerization technique. Besides, the synthetic approach gives access to multitype modification of different nanoparticles with polymers.
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