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1 Electronic Supplementary Information Steady State and Time Resolved Spectroscopic Study of C-Dots - MEH- PPV Polymer Nanoparticles Composites Monoj Kumar Barman, Santanu Bhattacharyya and Amitava Patra * Department of Materials Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, 700 032, India * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; electronic mail: [email protected] Phone: (91)-33-2473-4971, Fax: (91)-33-2473-28 Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics This journal is © The Owner Societies 2013

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Electronic Supplementary Information

Steady State and Time Resolved Spectroscopic Study of C-Dots - MEH-PPV Polymer Nanoparticles Composites†

Monoj Kumar Barman, Santanu Bhattacharyya and Amitava Patra*

Department of Materials Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science,

Kolkata, 700 032, India

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; electronic mail: [email protected]

Phone: (91)-33-2473-4971, Fax: (91)-33-2473-28

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3.1Å

B

Figure S1: SEM image of MEH-PPV polymer nanoparticles.

C)

Figure S2: TEM images of C-dot10 at low resolution (A), at high resolution (B). Particle size

distribution of C-dot10 from DLS (C)

0 10 20 300

5

10

15

Inte

nsity

(%)

Size (d.nm)

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20 nm

A B

C)

Figure S3: TEM images of C-dot20 at low resolution (A), at high resolution (B). Particle size

distribution of C-dot20 from DLS (C).

Figure S4: Three different C-dots upon UV light irradiation (λex=365 nm)

0 6 12 18 24 300

4

8

Inte

nsity

(%)

Diameter (d.nm)

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50 nm

A) B)

Figure S5: TEM image (A) and hydrodynamic size distribution (B) of C-dot10-PNP0.1 composite.

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 5000

2

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6

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10

12

14

16

Inte

nsity

(%)

Size (d.nm)

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50 nm

A) B)

Figure S6: TEM image (A) and hydrodynamic size distribution (B) of C-dot20-PNP0.1 composite.

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Size (d.nm)

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Figure S7: Overlap integral between the emission spectra of C-dot and absorption spectra of

PNPs.

Figure S8: PL spectra of C-dot-PNP system at different excitation wavelength

400 500 6000.0

0.5

1.0

Norm

alize

d Ab

s/PL

Inte

nsity

Wavelength (nm)

PL Emission of C-dot Absorption Spectrum of PNP

400 500 600 7000.00

3.50x106

7.00x106

PL In

tens

ity

Wavelength (nm)

C-dot-PNP (λex=370nm) C-dot-PNP (λex=480nm)

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Figure S9: Comparison PL quenching efficiency of C-dots in presence of different concentration of PNP

for three different batches.

0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.10

0.2

0.4

0.6

C-dot10-PNP

C-dot20-PNP

C-dot30-PNPQ

uenc

hing

Effi

cienc

y

CPNP/CC-dot (in Wt%)

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