Issue 32, 2013
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RSC Advances

Simple one-step synthesis of water-soluble fluorescent carbon dots derived from paper ash†

Jumeng Wei,a   Jianmin Shen,b   Xin Zhang,a   Shikuan Guo,a   Jiaqi Pan,a   Xiaogang Hou,a   Haibin Zhang,a   Long Wanga  and  Boxue Feng*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute for plasma and metal materials, School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P. R. China
E-mail: fengbx@lzu.edu.cn
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b Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China

Abstract

Highly photoluminescent carbon dots with a PL quantum yield of 9.3% have been prepared via a simple one-step synthesis route using waste paper as a novel carbon source. The as-prepared carbon dots have good water solubility, well distributed particle size and acceptable fluorescence lifetime. Besides, due to high photostability and biocompatibility, the obtained carbon dots are demonstrated as excellent probes in cellular imaging.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA41751D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Apr 2013
Accepted
11 Jun 2013
First published
13 Jun 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 13119-13122

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Simple one-step synthesis of water-soluble fluorescent carbon dots derived from paper ash

J. Wei, J. Shen, X. Zhang, S. Guo, J. Pan, X. Hou, H. Zhang, L. Wang and B. Feng, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 13119 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41751D

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