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Optical characterization of CdS nanoparticles embedded into the comb-type amphiphilic graft copolymer

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This study refers to the synthesis and characterization of a novel organic/inorganic hybrid nanocomposite material containing cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanoparticles. For this purpose, a series of polypropylene (PP)-g-polyethylene glycol (PEG), PP-g-PEG comb-type amphiphilic graft copolymers were synthesized. PEGs with Mn = 400, 2000, 3350, and 8000 Da were used and the graft copolymers obtained were coded as PPEG400, PPEG2000, PPEG3350, and PPEG8000. CdS nanoparticles were formed in tetrahydrofuran solution of PP-g-PEG amphiphilic comb-type copolymer by the reaction between aqueous solutions of Na2S and Cd(CH3COO)2 simultaneously. Micelle formation of PPEG2000 comb-type amphiphilic graft copolymer in both solvent/non-solvent (petroleum ether–THF) by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The optical characteristics, size morphology, phase analysis, and dispersion of CdS nanoparticles embedded in PPEG400, PPEG2000, PPEG3350, and PPEG8000 comb-type amphiphilic graft copolymer micelles were determined by high resolution TEM (HRTEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy, UV–vis spectroscopy, and fluorescence emission spectroscopy techniques. The aggregate size of PPEG2000-CdS is between 10 and 50 nm; however, in the case of PPEG400-CdS, PPEG3350-CdS, and PPEG8000-CdS samples, it is up to approximately 100 nm. The size of CdS quantum dots in the aggregates for PPEG2000 and PPEG8000 samples was observed as 5 nm by HRTEM analysis, and this result was also supported by UV–vis absorbance spectra and fluorescence emission spectra.

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This work was supported by; both the Bulent Ecevit University Research Fund (#BEU-2012-10-03-13) and TUBITAK (Grant # 211T016).

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  1. Department of Physics, Bulent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, 67100, Turkey

    Özlem A. Kalaycı

  2. TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Materials Institute, Gebze, Kocaeli, 41470, Turkey

    Özgür Duygulu

  3. Department of Chemistry, Bulent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, 67100, Turkey

    Baki Hazer

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Kalaycı, Ö.A., Duygulu, Ö. & Hazer, B. Optical characterization of CdS nanoparticles embedded into the comb-type amphiphilic graft copolymer. J Nanopart Res 15, 1355 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-012-1355-x

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