The tuning of photophysical properties of the poly[2-methoxy-5-(3,7-dimethyl-octyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene]-end capped with dimethylphenyl (DMP), MDMO-PPV-DMP, was achieved by incorporation of ZnO NPs with various contents. Hybrid nanocomposites of MDMO-PPV-DMP with ZnO NPs were prepared by solution blending method and then deposited onto glass substrates. The structural properties of the hybrid nanocomposites samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction, FTIR, and FE-SEM, while their optical properties were extracted from the absorption and photoluminescence spectra. The energy band gap, energy tail, steepness parameter, and CIE chromatic coordinates were tuned by increase the content of ZnO NPs into the polymer matrix. The ZnO NPs incorporation assists the emission wavelength shift and multicolor emitting from the hybrid nanocomposites.
Keywords: MDMO-PPV–DMP; ZnO NPs; hybrid nanocomposite; photophysical properties.