title: Synthesis and photochemical applications of processable polymers enclosing photoluminescent carbon quantum dots.
abstract: Herein, we propose convenient routes to produce hybrid-polymers that covalently enclosed, or confined, N-doped carbon quantum dots (CQDs). We focus our attention on polyamide, polyurea-urethane, polyester, and polymethylmetacrylate polymers, some of the most common resources used to create everyday materials. These hybrid materials can be easily prepared and processed to obtain macroscopic objects of different shapes, i.e., fibers, transparent sheets, and bulky forms, where the characteristic luminescence properties of the native N-doped CQDs are preserved. More importantly we explore the potential use of these hybrid composites to achieve photochemical reactions as those of photoreduction of silver ions to silver nanoparticles (under UV-light), the selective photo-oxidation of benzylalcohol to the benzaldehyde (under vis-light), and the photocatalytic generation of H2 (under UV-light).
authors.affiliation: †Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mosconi
authors.affiliation: †Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mazzier
authors.affiliation: †Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Silvestrini
authors.affiliation: †Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Privitera
authors.affiliation: †Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marega
authors.affiliation: †Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.|‡Polo Fotovoltaico Veneto, University of Padova, Via Trasea 7, 35125 Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Franco
authors.affiliation: †Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.|§Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Padova Unit, CNR, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moretto
keywords: carbon nanostructures; carbon quantum dots; photocatalysis; photoluminescence; polymers