Issue 32, 2014

Hair-derived carbon dots toward versatile multidimensional fluorescent materials

Abstract

We report a simple and green route to the fabrication of fluorescent carbon dots (CDs), and demonstrate their versatile applications. Hair, a kind of natural and nontoxic raw material, was chosen as the precursor to prepare CDs via a one-step pyrolysis process. The structure and fluorescence properties of the CDs were thoroughly investigated. The obtained CDs can emit bright blue light under UV light with the quantum yield of ca. 17%, and exhibit excitation-, pH- and solvent-dependent fluorescence. The functional groups on the surface of CDs confer these nanomaterials with excellent dispersibility in water and most polar organic solvents, as well as good compatibility with polymer matrices such as poly(methyl methacrylate) and polyvinylpyrrolidone. Then multidimensional CD–polymer hybrid materials, including one-dimensional (1D) microfibers, 2D patterned films and 3D microbeads were constructed with excellent overall performance, which are useful in fluorescent patterns, flat panel displays and anti-counterfeiting labeling fields.

Graphical abstract: Hair-derived carbon dots toward versatile multidimensional fluorescent materials

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Mar 2014
Accepted
07 May 2014
First published
08 May 2014

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014,2, 6477-6483

Author version available

Hair-derived carbon dots toward versatile multidimensional fluorescent materials

S. Liu, C. Wang, C. Li, J. Wang, L. Mao and S. Chen, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014, 2, 6477 DOI: 10.1039/C4TC00636D

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