Polymers (Jan 2023)

Progression of Quantum Dots Confined Polymeric Systems for Sensorics

  • Ranjana Choudhary Ahirwar,
  • Swati Mehra,
  • Sanjeev Machindra Reddy,
  • Hassan Abbas Alshamsi,
  • Aseel A. Kadhem,
  • Smita Badur Karmankar,
  • Alka Sharma,
  • Poushali

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15020405
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 2
p. 405

Abstract

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The substantial fluorescence (FL) capabilities, exceptional photophysical qualities, and long-term colloidal stability of quantum dots (QDs) have aroused a lot of interest in recent years. QDs have strong and wide optical absorption, good chemical stability, quick transfer characteristics, and facile customization. Adding polymeric materials to QDs improves their effectiveness. QDs/polymer hybrids have implications in sensors, photonics, transistors, pharmaceutical transport, and other domains. There are a great number of review articles available online discussing the creation of CDs and their many uses. There are certain review papers that can be found online that describe the creation of composites as well as their many different uses. For QDs/polymer hybrids, the emission spectra were nearly equal to those of QDs, indicating that the optical characteristics of QDs were substantially preserved. They performed well as biochemical and biophysical detectors/sensors for a variety of targets because of their FL quenching efficacy. This article concludes by discussing the difficulties that still need to be overcome as well as the outlook for the future of QDs/polymer hybrids.

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