Abstract
Photoluminescence (PL) of photochromic pHEMA-TiO2 gels-based hybrids was studied by means of time- and energy-resolved spectroscopy at temperatures between 300K and 10K. The PL band at 485nm is assigned to S0←T1 transition of methoxyphenol (organic molecule added to the commercial monomer hydroxyethyl methacrylate, HEMA and used as an inhibitor of spontaneous polymerisation) in the polymer environment, while the PL band at 600nm is assigned to the self-trapped exciton onto octahedral TiO6 site of the inorganic component. The mechanisms of the excited states population are discussed. In particular it is shown that both singlet-triplet energy transfer in methoxyphenol and methoxyphenol–TiO2 charge transfer are strongly affected by the material composition and temperature. The hypothesis about the photoexcited holes annihilation with the trapped electrons is confirmed to be one of main mechanisms limiting the Ti3+ centres concentration.
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