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Environmentally Benign Blue Emissive Films from Host-Dopant Interaction of PLA–Bischalcone Combination with High UV Endurance

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This work reports the fabrication of blue luminescent bioplastic PLA films on doping with 4-chloro and 4-fluoro substituted bisarylidene cyclohexanone derivatives A and B. The successful doping of A and B to host matrix was evidenced by spectroscopic and analytical methods. The appearance of an absorption band at 1665 cm−1 owing to the conjugated alkene stretching frequency for bischalcones approved the presence of guest molecules. Similarly, the crystallinity of the films was improved by the addition of dopants above 2%. Molecular dynamics simulations of mechanical properties for neat PLA for lowest dopant concentration (2%) revealed decrease in Young’s modulus and bulk modulus. The doping resulted in bathochromic shift from λmax 290 nm to the range of 335–340 nm with high degree of UV endurance. The PLA/dopant composite films (2–8%) effectively absorbed UVB as well as UVA radiation with promising SPF ranging from 12.71–39.2, 13.26–37.57 and UPF from 17.14–902.50, 9.39–197.01 for dopant A and B respectively. The photoluminescence emission maxima were observed in the blue region at 461 nm and 463 nm for the films doped with A and B. The effective scintillation with large Stoke’s shift could be due to J-aggregate alignment of the dopants in the host matrix. The quantitative quantum yield (QY) was found to vary in the range of 0.17–0.42 for A and 0.15–0.46 for B which were comparable with flurophore anthracene with QY 0.27–0.36. Hence, these environmentally benign bioplastic composite materials with high SPF and UPF could find use as wide range UV filtering and also as blue emissive materials.

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Authors owe Department of Chemistry, Dharwad University for providing luminescence results of the sample and also thank Mangalore University for furnishing the characterization results in time.

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Pai, A.J., Sarojini, B.K., Harshitha, K.R. et al. Environmentally Benign Blue Emissive Films from Host-Dopant Interaction of PLA–Bischalcone Combination with High UV Endurance. J Polym Environ 30, 373–384 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-021-02196-1

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