Fluorescent polyacrylate derivate from 4-biphenylmethanol with UV-green emission

Ana M Herrera-González; Martín Caldera-Villalobos; Jesús García-Serrano; Marissa Vargas Ramírez; Azdrubal Lobo Guerrero-Serrano

doi:10.1080/15685551.2018.1514703

Fluorescent polyacrylate derivate from 4-biphenylmethanol with UV-green emission

Des Monomers Polym. 2018 Sep 22;21(1):137-144. doi: 10.1080/15685551.2018.1514703. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Ana M Herrera-González¹, Martín Caldera-Villalobos¹, Jesús García-Serrano¹, Marissa Vargas Ramírez¹, Azdrubal Lobo Guerrero-Serrano¹

Affiliation

¹ Instituto de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Mineral de la Reforma, México.

Abstract

In this paper we report the synthesis of a new polyacrylate named poly(1,1'-BP4MA) which is a derivate from 4-biphenylmethanol monomer. Poly(1,1'-BP4MA) was obtained by solution and bulk polymerization techniques to yield polymers with high molecular weight and high solubility. The study of the optical properties showed that poly(1,1'-BP4MA) is a fluorescent material with emission in the UV-green region and it has similar quantum yield to tryptophan.

Keywords: Fluorescence; UV-light emitter; biphenyl; blue-light emitter; polyacrylate; short-wavelenght emitter.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the PRODEP.