Journal
CARBON
Volume 112, Issue -, Pages 63-71Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.10.091
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51375474, 51675514]
- promotive research fund for young and middle-aged scientists of Shandong Province [ZR2016EMB04]
- Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program [J16LA03]
- Doctoral Start-Up Scientific Research Foundation [BSQD20150114]
- Technology Program of Qufu Normal University [xkj201602]
- CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program
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Fluorinated graphene quantum dots (FGQDs) have distinctive charge distribution in structure and unique chemical bonds in composition, corresponding to novel performance different from common quantum dots. However, their synthesis is a challenge due to chemically inert C-F bonds and hydrophobic nature, and the fluorine influence on FGQDs remains scarce and to be studied. Herein, we first design a gradient fluorine-sacrificing strategy to synthesize FGQDs with controllable sizes and tunable fluorine contents from bulk fluorinated graphite. It is found that although fluorine atom is the second-smallest in periodic table, it not only greatly affects the size formation process, but also endows FGQDs with pH-independent luminescence without any additional surface passivation. And it is for the first time to experimentally observed that point defects in FGQDs induced by fluorine can greatly increase paramagnetism, which is 5 times higher than unfluorinated ones. Moreover, cytotoxicity experiments clearly reveal FGQDs show good biocompatibility, and it is the chemical surface rather than size that influences the cell viability. This work realizes fine control over both structure and chemistry of FGQDs, and thus allows a better insight into the fluorine effects on formation and performance of graphene quantum dots. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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