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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 6, Issue 60, Pages 55393-55400Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6ra09479a
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- Ministry of Education, Culture Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [26288108, 26630322]
- Strategic Young Research Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation from Japan Society of Promotion of Science
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26288108, 26630322] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Carbon-dots (C-dots) nanocomposites represent a new frontier for highly efficient light-emitting materials with tunable colors in a wide range of the visible spectral region. We have developed a C-dots-ZnO system and the emission is finely controlled through material processing. The C-dots, besides being fluorophores, become a tool for modulating the defects in a ZnO matrix through chemical interactions. Macroporous ZnO films have been prepared via a hard templating route using mesoporous silica spheres which allows full crystallization of the ZnO framework and post-impregnation of large amounts of C-dots within the porous matrix. The photoluminescence spectra are given by a combination of different contributions: C-dots, UV near-band and defect-related ZnO emissions. The reducing action of the C-dots in the ZnO porous matrix allows engineering of the defect-related ZnO emissions. The chromaticity of the nanocomposite, from orange to purple and white, is controlled by adjusting the amounts of C-dots through post-impregnation.
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