New Progress in Preparation of Multicolor Carbon Dots

doi:10.7517/j.issn.1674-0475.2017.01.001

Abstract

Abstract:

Carbon dot (or carbon quantum dot), a novel carbon nanomaterial which has effective absorption, colorful fluorescence in the UV-Vis region, has great prospect to be applied in biomedicine, environment energy, and catalysis. However, in the past decade, no matter the top-down and bottom-up methods, most of C-dots emitted in blue-orange light. Recently, with the development of nanotechnology, various approaches have been exploited to prepare red-emissive or near-infrared emissive C-dots. In this paper, we briefly summarized the various preparation methods of carbon dots and mainly summarized the new progress in preparation of red or near-infrared emissive C-dots.

Key words: carbon dot, red-emissive, carbon nanomaterial

HOU Changshun, GE Jiechao. New Progress in Preparation of Multicolor Carbon Dots[J]. Imaging Science and Photochemistry, 2017, 35(1): 1-14.

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