Formation Mechanism of Carbogenic Nanoparticles with Dual Photoluminescence Emission
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KUS-C1-018-02Date
2011-12-29Online Publication Date
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We present a systematic investigation of the formation mechanism of carbogenic nanoparticles (CNPs), otherwise referred to as C-dots, by following the pyrolysis of citric acid (CA)-ethanolamine (EA) precursor at different temperatures. Pyrolysis at 180 °C leads to a CNP molecular precursor with a strongly intense photoluminescence (PL) spectrum and high quantum yield formed by dehydration of CA-EA. At higher temperatures (230 °C) a carbogenic core starts forming and the PL is due to the presence of both molecular fluorophores and the carbogenic core. CNPs that exhibit mostly or exclusively PL arising from carbogenic cores are obtained at even higher temperatures (300 and 400 °C, respectively). Since the molecular fluorophores predominate at low pyrolysis temperatures while the carbogenic core starts forming at higher temperatures, the PL behavior of CNPs strongly depends on the conditions used for their synthesis. © 2011 American Chemical Society.Citation
Krysmann MJ, Kelarakis A, Dallas P, Giannelis EP (2012) Formation Mechanism of Carbogenic Nanoparticles with Dual Photoluminescence Emission. Journal of the American Chemical Society 134: 747–750. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja204661r.Sponsors
This publication is based on work supported in part by Award No. KUS-C1-018-02 made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. It is also based on work supported in part by Torrey Pines and the Energy Materials Center at Cornell, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Award No. DE-SC0001086. M.J.K. and A.K. dedicate this Communication to Prof. Colin Booth (Manchester University) on the occasion of his 80th birthday.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)PubMed ID
22201260ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/ja204661r
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