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Hydrophilic photoluminescent CdTe/poly (1, 4-butanediol-citrate) (PBC) bioelastomer nanocomposite was successfully synthesized by a two-step method and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, Uv-vis spectroscopy, photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The differential scanning calorimetry analysis shows that the bioelastomer nanocomposites with different mass fractions of CdTe have low glass-transition temperature, which indicates that they possess elastic property in the range from room temperature to the expected applied temperature (37°C). The measurements of the hydrophilicity, in vitro degradation and PL show that the nanocomposite has good hydrophilicity, degradation and high fluorescence properties.
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Jiang, L., Qin, A., Jiang, K. et al. Preparation, structure and properties of fluorescent nano-CdTe/poly (1, 4-butanediol-citrate) bioelastomer nanocomposite in-situ dispersion technique. Front. Optoelectron. 6, 452–457 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-013-0345-7
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