Fabrication of Highly Photoluminescent TiO2/PPV Hybrid Nanoparticle-Polymer Fibers by Electrospinning

✍ Scribed by Cheng Wang; Eryun Yan; Zonghao Huang; Qiang Zhao; Yi Xin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 251 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1336
• DOI: 10.1002/marc.200600626

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In this study, we have synthesized highly photoluminescent TiO~2~/poly (phenylene vinylene) (PPV) hybrid nanoparticle‐polymer fibers by electrospinning a PPV precursor added to a TiO~2~ sol‐gel solution. The diameters of the hybrid fibers ranged from 100–300 nm and the average size of TiO~2~ nanoparticles within the fibers was 10–60 nm. FT‐IR analysis indicated that a new band around 1 632 cm^−1^ assigned to the TiOC vibration appeared, which resulted in the stronger luminance of the fluorescence of the TiO~2~/PPV hybrid fibers compared to free standing PPV nanofibers.

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