All-inorganic CsPbX 3 (X = Cl, Br, and I) nanocrystals (NCs) are emerging as attractive semiconductor materials because of their outstanding optical properties. The low resistance of CsPbX 3 NCs to light, heat, oxygen, and water has been recognized as a major obstacle to their practical applications. Here, we demonstrate that the stability of CsPbX 3 NC films can be dramatically enhanced by Ar plasma treatment. It is revealed that plasma irradiation can induce ligand polymerization in the NC films if the ligands contain unsaturated carbon bonds. The ligand polymerization leads to encapsulation of the NCs in the ligand polymers. Because of the precise localization of the in situ ligand polymerization under plasma irradiation and the high NC content in the films without extra additives, the polymerized area can be precisely defined down to several micrometers. This enables easy fabrication of high-resolution NC pixels for next generation displays.

A reactive diluent for the preparation of a fully biobased unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) was developed and is presented here. The diluent, 4-vinylguaiacol acetyl ester (AC4VG), was obtained via a simple two-step synthesis: decarboxylation from ferulic acid (FA) and acetylation of the decarboxylated product, 4-vinylguaiacol (4VG). This diluent shows excellent miscibility with biobased unsaturated polyester prepolymer (UPP) that had been synthesized from succinic acid (SA), 1,3-dihydroxypropane (PD), and itaconic acid (IA). A mixed solution of these possessed a very low viscosity at 174 mPa·s at room temperature when 40 wt% AC4VG was added. Moreover, its vinyl group brought high reactivity for free radical copolymerization with the UPP, and the benzene ring structure enabled a high glass transition temperature (T g) of the cured UPR. When the fully biobased UPR was reinforced by cotton fabric, a strong tensile strength at the break of approximately 65.8 MPa, a T g of 135 °C, and a T d5% of 276 °C were achieved. This work suggests that the fully biobased UPR reported here is a promising candidate for replacing petroleum-based ones, and the diluent AC4VG played an important role in the performance of this biobased UPR.

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