Chemically bonded assembly and photophysical properties of luminescent hybrid polymeric materials embedded into silicon–oxygen network and carbon unit

Through the reaction between the hydroxyl groups of 2-hydroxyl-3-methylbenzoic acid (HMBA), the glycol (G), the diglycol (DG) or the polyethylene glycol (PEG) and the isocyanate groups of 3-(triethoxysilyl)-propyl isocyanate (TEPIC), the hybrid precursors HMBA-Si, G-Si, DG-Si and PEG-Si were obtained. And then the precursors HMBA-Si and G-Si (DG-Si, PEG-Si) have coordinated to the rare earth ions with the carbonyl group of G-Si (DG-Si, PEG-Si) and the carboxyl group of HMBA-Si to form the hybrid materials HMBA-G-RE-Si (HMBA-DG-RE-Si, HMBA-PEG-RE-Si) through hydrolysis and copolycondensation with the tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) via sol–gel process. Subsequently, the NMR, FT-IR and ultraviolet absorption spectra have indicated that the effective precursors have been obtained successfully and the obtained materials possess the characteristic fluorescent properties, thermal stabilities and regular trunk with hole-like microstructures.