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- Yeast capsules (YCs) loaded with fluorescent dyes were used to create hybrid microstructures by depositing silica (SiO) on their surfaces in a special buffered system.* -
- The silica enhances the YCs' fluorescent properties while preserving the integrity of their polysaccharide walls, allowing for further modifications.* -
- These new hybrid microcapsules have potential applications in optoelectronic devices like electrochromic and OLED technologies, and they are also biocompatible and biodegradable.*
Article Abstract
Yeast capsules (YCs) produced from with encapsulated fluorescent phenosafranin and azure dyes were used as catalytic template guides for developing hybrid functional organic/inorganic hollow microstructures with silica (SiO) deposited on their surface generated in the imidazole-buffered system without the addition of any cationic surfactant. YCs-doped with SiO act as fluorescence emitters maintaining dye-loaded materials by sealing the microporous surface of YCs. We used vinyltrimethoxysilane as a precursor of SiO endowed with functional vinyl groups facilitating their further modification without disturbing the polysaccharide wall integrity. Consequently, the hybrid fluorescent polysaccharide/silica microcapsules (YC@dye@SiO) are promising for wide-ranging optoelectronic applications in electrochromic and OLED devices with biocompatibility and biodegradability properties.
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