Dimethyl amino phenyl substituted silver phthalocyanine as a UV- And visible-light absorbing photoinitiator:- And situ preparation of silver/polymer nanocomposites

Louise Breloy, Yusuf Alcay, Ismail Yilmaz*, Martin Breza, Julie Bourgon, Vlasta Brezová, Yusuf Yagci*, Davy Louis Versace*

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Abstract

A novel visible-light absorbing silver dimethyl amino phenyl substituted phthalocyanine photoinitiator (dmaph-Ag(II)Pc) for free-radical (FRP) and cationic (CP) polymerizations in laminate and under air is reported. The photoinduced electron transfer reactions of excited dmaph-Ag(II)Pc in the presence and absence of an iodonium salt (Iod) resulted in the formation of a Brønsted acid and radical species capable of initiating CP and FRP, respectively. The photophysical and photochemical properties of the photoinitiator are evaluated in detail by computational and spectroscopic investigations, and the kinetics of the polymerizations are studied. It was demonstrated that the described photoinitiating system is highly efficient in the simultaneous cationic or free-radical polymerization and silver ion reduction. The nanocomposites formed this way contain spherical shaped silver nanoparticles homogenously dispersed in the polymer matrix with a narrow size distribution between 5 and 20 nm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1273-1285
Number of pages13
JournalPolymer Chemistry
Volume12
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Mar 2021

Bibliographical note

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Funding

The French National Research Agency (ANR), UPEC, ICMPE and Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic are acknowledged for the financial support (V. B. and M.B. funding within the scheme “Excellent research teams”). This work was also supported by the Science and Technology Assistance Agency (contract no. APVV-19-0087) and by the Slovak Grant Agency VEGA (contract no. 1/0139/20 and 1/0064/21). We thank the HPC center at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, which is a part of the Slovak Infrastructure of High-Performance Computing (SIVVP Project, ITMS code 26230120002, funded by the European Region Development Funds), for computing facilities.

FundersFunder number
ICMPE
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport
Science and Technology Assistance AgencyAPVV-19-0087
Slovak Grant Agency VEGA1/0064/21, 1/0139/20
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
European Regional Development Fund
Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne

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