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Influence of solvent environment on the luminescent centers within carbon dots

Evgenia A. Stepanidenko,   Irina A. Arefina,   Pavel D. Khavlyuk,   Aliaksei Dubavik,   Kirill V. Bogdanov,   Daniil P. Bondarenko,   Sergei A. Cherevkov,   Evgeny Kundelev,   Anatoly V. Fedorov,   Alexander V. Baranov,   Vladimir G. Maslov,   Elena V. Ushakova  and  Andrey Rogach  

Abstract

Carbon dots (CDs) are luminescent nanomaterials, with a perspective of use in bioimaging and sensorics. Here, influence of the surrounding solvent media on the optical properties of CDs synthesized from the most commonly employed precursors, namely citric acid and ethylenediamine is investigated. The position of optical transitions of CDs can be tuned by the change of pH and the solvent polarity. The most striking observation is related to the interaction of CDs with the chlorine containing solvents, which results in resolving a set of narrow peaks within both absorption and PL bands, similar to those observed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or organic dyes. We assume that the chlorine containing molecules penetrate the surface layers of CDs, which results in the increase of the distance between the luminescent centers; this correlates well with an enhanced D-band in their Raman spectra. A model of CDs composed of a matrix of hydrogenated amorphous carbon containing the inclusions of sp2-domains formed by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives is suggested; the latter are stacked ensembles of the luminophores and are considered as the origin of CD’s emission.

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The article was received on 09 Oct 2019, accepted on 28 Nov 2019 and first published on 28 Nov 2019


Article type: Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR08663C
Nanoscale, 2019, Accepted Manuscript

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    Influence of solvent environment on the luminescent centers within carbon dots

    E. A. Stepanidenko, I. A. Arefina, P. D. Khavlyuk, A. Dubavik, K. V. Bogdanov, D. P. Bondarenko, S. A. Cherevkov, E. Kundelev, A. V. Fedorov, A. V. Baranov, V. G. Maslov, E. V. Ushakova and A. Rogach, Nanoscale, 2019, Accepted Manuscript , DOI: 10.1039/C9NR08663C

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