Development of structure-tailored and composite magnetic-fluorescent microspheres through the PRI method

Summary: Multifunctional micro- and nanoparticles have found their applications in fields like medicine, display materials, cosmetics, and so on. Advances in these fields have been demonstrated to need scalable uniformly sized, mass-produced, and structured spherical particles. In this work, we proposed structure-tailored and multifunctional composite polymeric microspheres with tunable diameter size, by using a versatile and scalable in-fiber particle fabrication through the Plateau-Rayleigh capillary instability method. The results show that the characteristic shapes of the luminescence spectra of CsPbBr3 remained similar before and after embedding in the microspheres. The luminescence intensity was stabilized at 85–90% of their original photoluminescence intensities over an extended period. Moreover, the photoluminescence lifetime of the fluorescent microspheres was increased by 9.03% compared to CsPbBr3. The X-ray diffraction results revealed that there was no change in the crystal structure of the dopants before and after the encapsulation. Also, precise magnetic manipulation of Janus microspheres was successfully demonstrated.