Green hydrothermal synthesis yields perylenebisimide-SiO₂ hybrid materials with solution-like fluorescence and photoredox activity

Funding

The authors acknowledge the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the financial support under grant No. START Y1037-N38. PXRD measurements were carried out at the X-ray Center of TU Wien (XRC). SEM and TEM were performed at the interfaculty electron microscopy facility of TU Wien (USTEM). We thank Prof. Johannes Bernardi for TEM measurements, Dr Michael Puchberger for ss-NMR measurements, and Dr Thomas Koch for TGA analyses of the materials after photocatalytic testing. Prof. Karin Fottinger and Dr Michael Linseis and Prof. Rainer Winter for access to the photoluminescence spectrometers. Furthermore, we thank D. Alonso Cerron-Infantes, Fabian A. Amaya-Garcia and Prof. Ulrich Schubert for fruitful discussions.