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ArticleScientific reports2023

Second harmonic generation on crystalline organic nanoclusters under extreme nanoconfinement in functionalized silica-benzil composites.

Houda El Karout, Yaroslav Shchur, Anatoliy Andrushchak, Bouchta Sahraoui, Robert Wielgosz, Olha Kityk, Jarosław Jędryka, Yurii Slyvka, Andriy V Kityk

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Houda El KaroutUniversity of Angers, LPhiA, SFR MATRIX, 2 Bd. Lavoisier, 49045, Angers Cedex 01, France.
Yaroslav ShchurInstitute for Condensed Matter Physics, 1 Svientsitskii str., Lviv, 79011, Ukraine. shchur@icmp.lviv.ua.
Anatoliy AndrushchakLviv National Polytechnic University, 12 S. Bandery str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine.
Bouchta SahraouiUniversity of Angers, LPhiA, SFR MATRIX, 2 Bd. Lavoisier, 49045, Angers Cedex 01, France.
Robert WielgoszEnergia Oze Sp. z o.o., ul. Czȩstochowska 7, 42-274, Konopiska, Poland.
Olha KitykEnergia Oze Sp. z o.o., ul. Czȩstochowska 7, 42-274, Konopiska, Poland.
Jarosław JędrykaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Częstochowa University of Technology, Al. Armii Krajowej 17, 42-200, Częstochowa, Poland.
Yurii SlyvkaDepartment of Inorganic Chemistry, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Kyryla i Mefodiya Str. 6, Lviv, 79005, Ukraine.
Andriy V KitykFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Częstochowa University of Technology, Al. Armii Krajowej 17, 42-200, Częstochowa, Poland. andriy.kityk@pcz.pl.
Częstochowa University of Technology · PLInstitut des Sciences et Technologies Moléculaires d'Angers · FRLviv Polytechnic National University · UALviv University · UAUniversité d'Angers · FRYukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine · UA

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Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, Poland 020/RID/2018/19Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, Poland W13/H2020/2018 (Dec. MNiSW 3871/H2020/2018/2)Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine State registration: Nanomatrix 0122U000951Research Executive Agency 778156
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Abstract

We demonstrate a series of organic-inorganic nanocomposite materials combining the mesoporous silica (PS) and benzil (BZL) nanocrystals embedded into its nanochannels (6.0-13.0 nm in diameter) by capillary crystallization. One aims to design novel, efficient nonlinear optical composite materials in which inactive amorphous host PS-matrix provides a tubular scaffold structure, whereas nonlinear optical functionality results from specific properties of the deposited guest BZL-nanocrystals. A considerable contraction of the BZL melt during its crystallization inside the silica nanochannels results in a formation of the texture consisting of (221)- and (003)-oriented BZL nanoclusters (22 nm in length), separated by voids. Specificity of the textural morphology similarly to the spatial confinement significantly influences the nonlinear optical features of composite PS:BZL materials being explored in the second harmonic generation (SHG) experiment. The light polarization anisotropy of the SHG response appears to be considerably reduced at channel diameters larger than 7 nm apparently due to the multiple scattering and depolarization of the light on randomly distributed and crystallographically oriented BZL-nanoclusters. The normalized SHG response decreases nonlinearly by more than one order of magnitude as the channel diameter decreases from 13.0 to 6.0 nm and vanishes when spatial cylindrical confinement approaches the sizes of a few molecular layers suggesting that the embedded BZL clusters indeed are not uniformly crystalline but are characterized by more complex morphology consisting of a disordered SHG-inactive amorphous shell, covering the channel wall, and SHG-active crystalline core. Understanding and controlling of the textural morphology in inorganic-organic nanocrystalline composites as well as its relationships with nonlinear optical properties can lead to the development of novel efficient nonlinear optical materials for the light energy conversion with prospective optoelectronic and photonic applications.

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