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Advanced Compositional Analysis of Nanoparticle-polymer Composites Using Direct Fluorescence Imaging
Published on: July 19, 2016
Direct evidence of photo-induced diffusion of quantum dots in a photopolymerizable matrix
Anne Barichard1, Bénédicte Mailhot, Agnès Rivaton
1Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics, Laval University, Québec, Canada.
Nanotechnology
|June 3, 2009
Abstract:
We present direct experimental evidence of photo-induced movement of photoluminescent quantum dots (QDs) dispersed in a photopolymerizable acrylate mixture. The resulting rearrangement of QDs into a spatially modulated pattern fixed in the polymer matrix is evidenced thanks to fluorescence microscopy.
