Journal
ADVANCED SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202001453
Keywords
carbon dots; fluorescence mechanism; multi‐ color‐ emissive; phosphors; two‐ photon fluorescence
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21905253, 51973200]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M640681, 2019T120632]
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This study reports a new type of full-color emission carbon dots material, and a simple, convenient hydrothermal preparation method guided by theoretical calculations has been developed, showing great potential for various applications.
As an emerging building unit, carbon dots (CDs) have been igniting the revolutionaries in the fields of optoelectronics, biomedicine, and bioimaging. However, the difficulty of synthesizing CDs in aqueous solution with full-spectrum emission severely hinders further investigation of their emission mechanism and their extensive applications in white light emitting diodes (LEDs). Here, the full-color-emission CDs with a unique structure consisting of sp(3)-hybridized carbon cores with small domains of partially sp(2)-hybridized carbon atoms are reported. First-principle calculations are initially used to predict that the transformation from sp(3) to sp(2) hybridization redshifts the emission of CDs. Guided by the theoretical predictions, a simple, convenient, and controllable route to hydrothermally prepare CDs in a single reaction system is developed. The prepared CDs have full-spectrum emission with an unprecedented two-photon emission across the whole visible color range. These full-color-emission CDs can be further nurtured by slight modifications of the reaction conditions (e.g., temperature, pH) to generate the emission color from blue to red. Finally a flexible LEDs with full-color emission by using epoxy CDs films is developed, indicating that the strategy affords an industry translational potential over traditional fluorophores.
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