Naphthyl-Naphthalimides as High-Performance Visible Light Photoinitiators for 3D Printing and Photocomposites Synthesis

In this article, five new organic dyes based on the naphthalimide scaffold (Napht-1–Napht-5) were synthesized and tested as high-performance photoinitiators for both the Free Radical Photopolymerization (FRP) of acrylates and the Cationic Polymerization (CP) of epoxides using blue Light-Emitting Dio...

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Autores principales: Mahmoud Rahal, Bernadette Graff, Joumana Toufaily, Tayssir Hamieh, Malika Ibrahim-Ouali, Frédéric Dumur, Jacques Lalevée
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8a5c4f1d313444669ad5b7493f020a26
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Sumario:In this article, five new organic dyes based on the naphthalimide scaffold (Napht-1–Napht-5) were synthesized and tested as high-performance photoinitiators for both the Free Radical Photopolymerization (FRP) of acrylates and the Cationic Polymerization (CP) of epoxides using blue Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) as a safe irradiation source (LED @405 nm and 455). In fact, very good photopolymerization profiles (high final conversions and high polymerization rates) were obtained once these photoinitiators were combined with an Iodonium salt (Iod) or Iod/amine NPG and NVK). Remarkably, these dyes were able to generate interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) by polymerization of a blend of monomers. These experiments were carried out to improve the polymerization profiles as well as the mechanical properties of the obtained materials. Due to their high photoinitiation abilities, these compounds were used in some applications such as photocomposite synthesis, direct laser write, and 3D printing experiments. To determine the chemical mechanisms, the photochemical/photophysical properties of these compounds were studied using different characterization techniques such as UV–visible absorption spectroscopy, steady-state photolysis, Fluorescence quenching, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammetry