Journal
C-JOURNAL OF CARBON RESEARCH
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/c6010007
Keywords
detonation nanodiamond; hydrogenation; graphitization; surface chemistry; fluorescence; TEM; NEXAFS; XPS; FTIR; DLS
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- Australian Research Council (ARC) through the Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics [CE140100003]
- Australian Research Council (ARC) [LE140100131]
- RMIT
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Hydrogenated detonation nanodiamonds are of great interest for emerging applications in areas from biology and medicine to lubrication. Here, we compare the two main hydrogenation techniques-annealing in hydrogen and plasma-assisted hydrogenation-for the creation of detonation nanodiamonds with a hydrogen terminated surface from the same starting material. Synchrotron-based soft X-ray spectroscopy, infrared absorption spectroscopy, and electron energy loss spectroscopy were employed to quantify diamond and non-diamond carbon contents and determine the surface chemistries of all samples. Dynamic light scattering was used to study the particles' colloidal properties in water. For the first time, steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy analysis at temperatures from room temperature down to 10 K was performed to investigate the particles' fluorescence properties. Our results show that both hydrogenation techniques produce hydrogenated detonation nanodiamonds with overall similar physico-chemical and fluorescence properties.
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