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The influence of the structure of the polymer matrix on the main photoluminescence characteristics of composites based on core (CdSe) and core–shell type (CdSe/ZnS) quantum dots embedded in liquid-crystalline and amorphous polymers of similar chemical structure is studied. The photoluminescence spectra consist of two bands (2.15 and 1.70 eV), the first of which corresponds to the radiative recombination of excitons, and the second one corresponds to carriers captured by traps at the quantum dot boundary. The second band is absent in the case of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots embedded in the liquid-crystalline polymer matrix. The kinetics of photoluminescence is well described by the sum of two decaying exponentials for CdSe quantum dots in matrices of both types and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots in the amorphous matrix. To determine the photoluminescence kinetics in the case of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots in the liquid-crystalline matrix, one exponential is sufficient. These effects are explained by the appearance of regions with closely spaced quantum dots, in which, in particular, the resonance transmission of excitation is possible.
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The authors are grateful to S.S. Abramchuk for his help in TEM measurements on equipment of the Transmission Electron Microscopy Shared Research Center of Moscow State University, S.G. Dorofeev and P.K. Kashkarov for extremely helpful discussions, and M.N. Martyshov, D.V. Orlov, and N.E. Presnov for their help in experiments.
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The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 18-02-00548), and QDs and polymer matrices were synthesized as a part of the state task for the Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Golovan, L.A., Elopov, A.V., Zaitsev, V.B. et al. Photoluminescence of CdSe and CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots in Amorphous and Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Matrices. Polym. Sci. Ser. A 62, 701–713 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965545X20060048
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