Issue 24, 2024

Visible-light-excited room-temperature phosphorescent carbon dots: preparation strategies, mechanisms, and applications

Abstract

Visible-light-excited room-temperature phosphorescent carbon dots (RTP CDs) have attracted extensive attention by virtue of their deeper penetrability, less harmful nature, and stronger usability, exhibiting enormous application prospects in information encryption, graphic security, and fingerprint detection. However, achieving visible-light-excited RTP CDs under environmental conditions remains a serious challenge due to the limited excitation region. Recently, researchers have successfully obtained long lifetime and excellent stability visible-light-excited RTP CDs by adjusting the energy level structure of electronic transitions and the conjugated size of CDs to achieve a red-shift in the excitation spectrum. This review provides an overview of the recent developments in visible-light-excited RTP CDs. Firstly, the developmental history, luminescence mechanism, preparation strategy, and property regulation of visible-light-excited RTP CDs were systematically summarized. Additionally, potential applications of visible-light-excited RTP CDs in information protection, image encryption, and fingerprint recognition were also discussed. Finally, we proposed the new opportunities and important challenges of visible-light-excited RTP CDs.

Graphical abstract: Visible-light-excited room-temperature phosphorescent carbon dots: preparation strategies, mechanisms, and applications

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
23 апр 2024
Accepted
25 май 2024
First published
28 май 2024

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024,12, 8668-8679

Visible-light-excited room-temperature phosphorescent carbon dots: preparation strategies, mechanisms, and applications

Z. Guo, X. Yang, B. Xu, G. Liu, Y. Zhang, F. Qi, Y. Sun, C. Li and L. Hang, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12, 8668 DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01670J

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