PMID- 25367370 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150924 LR - 20150116 IS - 1521-3927 (Electronic) IS - 1022-1336 (Linking) VI - 36 IP - 2 DP - 2015 Jan TI - Nanocomposites of phosphonic-acid-functionalized polyethylenes with inorganic quantum dots. PG - 165-73 LID - 10.1002/marc.201400441 [doi] AB - Insertion of diethyl vinyl phosphonates and free vinyl phosphonic acid, respectively, into [(P;O)Pd(Me)(dmso)] ((P;O) = kappa(2)-P,O-Ar2PC6H4SO2O with Ar = 2-MeOC6H4) (1-dmso) occurs in a 2,1- as well as 1,2-fashion, to form a four-and a five-membered chelate [(P;O)Pdkappa(2)-C,O-CH(P(O)(OR)2)CH2CH3] and [(P;O)Pdkappa(2)-C,O-CH2CH(P(O)(OR)2)CH3] (R = H, Et). No decomposition or other reactions of 1 by free phosphonic acid moieties occur. Copolymerization in a pressure reactor by 1-dmso yields linear random poly(ethylene-co-diethyl vinyl phosphonate) and poly(ethylene-co-vinyl phosphonic acid). In these copolymerizations, reversible coordination of the phosphonate moieties of free monomer as well as chelate formation by incorporated monomer retards chain growth as also evidenced by relative binding studies of diethyl phosphonate towards 1. Post-polymerization emulsification of poly(ethylene-co-vinyl phosphonic acid) together with CdSe/CdS quantum dots (QDs) yields submicron (ca. 50 nm from dynamic light scattering (DLS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)) polymer particles with the QDs embedded in the functionalized polyethylene in a nonaggregated fashion. This embedding benefits the fluorescence behavior in terms of continuous emission and life-time as revealed by wide-field fluorescence measurements. These composite particle dispersions are employed as a ''masterbatch" together with an aqueous high density polyethylene (HDPE) dispersion to generate thin films (by spin-coating) and bulk materials (from the melt), respectively, in which the inorganic nanoparticles remain highly disperse. CI - (c) 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. FAU - Runzi, Thomas AU - Runzi T AD - Chair of Chemical Materials Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Universitatsstrasse 10, 78457, Konstanz, Germany. FAU - Baier, Moritz C AU - Baier MC FAU - Negele, Carla AU - Negele C FAU - Krumova, Marina AU - Krumova M FAU - Mecking, Stefan AU - Mecking S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20141103 PL - Germany TA - Macromol Rapid Commun JT - Macromolecular rapid communications JID - 9888239 RN - 0 (Phosphorous Acids) RN - 0 (Polyethylenes) RN - 13598-36-2 (phosphonic acid) SB - IM MH - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy MH - Microscopy, Electron, Transmission MH - Models, Chemical MH - Molecular Structure MH - Nanocomposites/*chemistry/ultrastructure MH - Particle Size MH - Phosphorous Acids/*chemistry MH - Polyethylenes/chemical synthesis/*chemistry MH - Polymerization MH - *Quantum Dots OTO - NOTNLM OT - composite materials OT - functionalized polyethylenes OT - insertion phosphonic OT - phosphonates OT - polymerization OT - quantum dots EDAT- 2014/11/05 06:00 MHDA- 2015/09/25 06:00 CRDT- 2014/11/05 06:00 PHST- 2014/08/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/10/01 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/11/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/11/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/09/25 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/marc.201400441 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Macromol Rapid Commun. 2015 Jan;36(2):165-73. doi: 10.1002/marc.201400441. Epub 2014 Nov 3.