Photon upconverting bioplastics with high efficiency and in-air durability
Pankaj Bharmoria, Shota Hisamitsu, Yōichi Sasaki, Tejwant Singh Kang, Masa‐aki Morikawa, Biplab Joarder, Kasper Moth‐Poulsen, Hakan Bildirir, Anders Mårtensson, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka
Abstract
The accommodation of chromophore-dissolved microdroplets in semicrystalline protein matrices succeeds in achieving upconverting bioplastics with high efficiency, air-stability, and long-term durability for the first time.
Topics & Concepts
Materials scienceBioplasticDurabilityPhotonOptoelectronicsEngineering physicsComposite materialOpticsWaste managementPhysicsEngineeringQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesNonlinear Optical Materials StudiesPolymer Nanocomposite Synthesis and Irradiation