Electronic polymers stability

Akashi and coworkers prepared small platinum nanoparticles by ethanol reduction of PtCl in the presence of various vinyl polymers with amide side chains [49]. These authors studied the effects of molecular weight and molar ratio [monomeric unit]/[Pt] on the particle sizes and size distributions by electron microscopy, and in some cases by the dispersion stability of the Pt colloids. The hydrogenation in aqueous phase of allyl alcohol was used as a model reaction to examine the change in catalytic activity of polymer-stabilized Pt colloids upon addition of Na2S04 to the reaction solution. The catalytic tests were performed in water or in Na2S04 aqueous solution at 25 °C under atmospheric pressure of... 

Polymer stabilization is another area in which the peroxide-decomposing and chain-breaking antioxidant properties of diorganotellurides has found utUity. Alone or in combination with phenol and phosphate antioxidants, electron-rich dialkylamino-substirnted diaryltellurides and alkylaryltellurides provided greatly enhanced polymer stability for a thermoplastic elastomer and for polypropylene. The effects were unique to the tellurides, with selenides not providing similar protective effects. ... 

Synthetic polymers stabilize metal colloids as important catalysts for multi-electron reactions. Polynuclear metal complexes are also efficient catalysts for multielectron processes allowing water photolysis. 

As for all catalysts, well-characterized samples are necessary to be able to relate the catalytic performance to physico-chemical properties. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAFS) were used in this study to characterize the stabilized metal colloid. The necessity of such extensive characterization of particle size has been outlined by Harada et al. [6,7] showing that the formation of aggregates may be overlooked and misinterpreted as large metal particles when using TEM alone. The actual availability of the polymer stabilized surface has been probed by hydrogen/oxygen titration adopted from the description of Bernard et al. [8]. 

Fig. 7.1 An image of one selected gas-filled polymer-stabilized microcapsule obtained by electron microscopy. The magic bullet is spherical with a diameter of about 1.7 (im and the substructure made of nanoparticles is clearly visible. In order to indicate that the particles are in fact gas-filled, an imperfect capsule with a bump has been carefully selected.

All three of these issues can be addressed, to some extent, by understanding and improving the optical, electronic, and stability properties of the photoactive polymer layer in OPV devices. 

Additive and impurity rejection at the growing crystal front leads to uneven distribution in a crystalline polymer. This redistribution process has been studied by UV and fluorescence microscopy and by an electron microscope with energy dispersive x-ray analysis. In polymer samples which are quenched after rapid crystallization, the additive distribution is kinetically determined and may be modeled in a computer as a three-dimensional zone-refining process. In annealed polymer samples, low molecular weight additives are uniformly concentrated in the amorphous phase. The additive distribution reflects that of crystalline material within the polymer. Antioxidant and uv stabilzer redistribution probably does not have a major effect on polymer stability, but the redistribution of partially oxidized, impure polymer may be important... 

One report has appeared dealing with the silver halide colloidal solution of Agl and the system AgI-Ag2S [48]. Besides the photochemical properties such as absorption, fluorescence, and photocorrosion, some experiments are outlined on the gradual conversion of Agl into Ag2S upon the addition of H2S to a polymer-stabilized solution of Agl. Agl colloids exhibiting a sharp first electronic transition at about 411 nm are fluorescing close to the onset... 

Xiang, X., Dahlgren, J., Enlow, W R, and Marshall, A. G., "Analysis of Phosphite Polymer Stabilizers by Laser Desorption/Electron Ionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry," Anal. Chem., 64, 2862-2865, 1992. 

Kinetic studies of competitive alcohol oxidation over Au/TiOj have postulated a unique ensemble in which a carbocation can be stabilized adjacent to a neighboring gold-oxo center [163]. This work proposed that benzylic alcohols oxidize via C-H cleavage at the benzylic position. Electronic effects in PVP-stabilized gold nanoparticles for p-hydroxy benzyl alcohol selox have also been reported [164] XANES, XPS, and FT-IR suggest that anionic 1.5 nm Au clusters are the most catalytically active, with electron donation from the polymer stabilizer creating Au-superoxo species (Figure 2.11). 

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Uniform bimetallic copper-palladium colloids (the metals are completely miscible) have been prepared by thermolysis of mixtures of the acetates in high boiling solvents such as bromobenzene, xylenes, and methyl- o-butyl ketone [86] in the absence of polymer stabilizers. The resulting agglomerated bimetallic particles often contained CuO in addition to the metals. Smaller particle sizes and narrower size distributions without oxide formation were reported to result from the analogous reaction in 2-ethoxyethanol in the presence of PVR [38] In both cases the homogeneous composition of the particles was established during the electron microprobe analysis used to determine the Cu Pd ratio in the individual particles. 

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