Sustainable carbon dots (CDs) based on furfuraldehyde (F-CD) resulted in a photosensitive material after pursuing the Alder-Longo reaction. The porphyrin moiety formed connects the F-CDs in a covalent organic network. This heterogeneous material (P-CD) was characterized by XPS indicating incorporation of the respective C, N and O moieties. Time resolved fluorescence including global analysis showed contribution of three linked components to the overall dynamics of the excited state. Electrochemical and photonic properties of this heterogeneous material facilitated photopolymerization in a photo-ATRP setup where either CuBr 2 /TPMA, FeBr 3 /Br À or a metal free reaction setup activated controlled polymerization. Chain extension experiments worked in all three cases showing end group fidelity for activation of controlled block copolymerization using MMA and styrene as monomers. Traditional radical polymerization using a diaryl iodonium salt as co-initiator failed.
A recently proposed Chaotic-Key Based Algorithm (CKBA) has been shown to be unavoidably susceptible to chosen/known-plaintext attacks and ciphertext-only attacks. In this paper we enhance the CKBA algorithm three-fold: 1) we change the 1-D chaotic Logistic map to a piecewise linear chaotic map (PWLCM) to improve the balance property, 2) we increase the key size to 128 bits, and 3) we add two more cryptographic primitives and extend the scheme to operate on multiple rounds so that the chosen/knownplaintext attacks are no longer possible. The new cipher has much stronger security and its performance characteristics remain very good.
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