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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 20, Issue 35, Pages 10926-10931Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201403076
Keywords
carbon; imaging; luminescence; nanoparticles; polymers
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- EU [PIIF-GA-2010-27103108, PIEF-GA-2010-276116]
- Medical Research Council UK
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [1106]
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Photoluminescent carbon dots were synthesised directly by thermopyrolysis of 1,4-addition polymers, allowing precise control of their properties. The effect of polymer composition on the properties of the carbon dots was investigated by TEM, IR, XPS, elemental analysis and fluorescence analysis, with carbon dots synthesised from nitrogen-containing polymers showing the highest fluorescence. The carbon dots with high nitrogen content were observed to have strong fluorescence in the visible region, and culture with cells showed that the carbon dots were non-cytotoxic and readily taken up by three different cell lines.
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