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

Abstract

In this paper we report the synthesis of a new polyacrylate named poly(1,1ʹ-BP4MA) which is a derivate from 4-biphenylmethanol monomer. Poly(1,1ʹ-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(1,1ʹ-BP4MA) is a fluorescent material with emission in the UV-green region and it has similar quantum yield to tryptophan.

Keywords

• Fluorescence
• biphenyl
• polyacrylate
• blue-light emitter
• UV-light emitter
• short-wavelenght emitter