Synthesis of multicolor photoluminescent carbon quantum dots functionalized with hydrocarbons of different chain lengths

Kayo Oliveira Vieira; Jefferson Bettini; Luiz Fernando Cappa de Oliveira; Jefferson Luis Ferrari; Marco Antonio Schiavon

doi:10.1016/S1872-5805(17)60126-4

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Kayo Oliveira Vieira, Jefferson Bettini, Luiz Fernando Cappa de Oliveira, Jefferson Luis Ferrari, Marco Antonio Schiavon. Synthesis of multicolor photoluminescent carbon quantum dots functionalized with hydrocarbons of different chain lengths. New Carbon Mater., 2017, 32(4): 327-337. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(17)60126-4

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Kayo Oliveira Vieira, Jefferson Bettini, Luiz Fernando Cappa de Oliveira, Jefferson Luis Ferrari, Marco Antonio Schiavon. Synthesis of multicolor photoluminescent carbon quantum dots functionalized with hydrocarbons of different chain lengths. New Carbon Mater., 2017, 32(4): 327-337. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(17)60126-4

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Kayo Oliveira Vieira, Jefferson Bettini, Luiz Fernando Cappa de Oliveira, Jefferson Luis Ferrari, Marco Antonio Schiavon. Synthesis of multicolor photoluminescent carbon quantum dots functionalized with hydrocarbons of different chain lengths. New Carbon Mater., 2017, 32(4): 327-337. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(17)60126-4

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Synthesis of multicolor photoluminescent carbon quantum dots functionalized with hydrocarbons of different chain lengths

doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(17)60126-4

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Grupo de Pesquisa em Química de Materiais-(GPQM), Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Dom Bosco, Praça Dom Helvécio, 74, CEP 36301-160, São João del-Rei, MG, Brazil;
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Laboratório Nacional de Nanotecnologia, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais, CEP 13083-970, Campinas-SP, Brazil;
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Núcleo de Espectroscopia e Estrutura Molecular, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 36036-330 Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil

Funds: This work was supported by CAPES,CNPq,and FAPEMIG.The authors would like to acknowledge the LME/LNNano for providing the equipment and technical support for experiments involving transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

Received Date: 2017-03-22
Accepted Date: 2017-08-31
Rev Recd Date: 2017-06-09
Publish Date: 2017-08-28

Abstract

Abstract

We report the synthesis of novel multicolor photoluminescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) from multi-wall carbon nanotubes, and their covalent functionalization with amines by peptide bonds. The resulting CQDs consisted of quasi-spherical graphite nanocrystals around 10 nm diameter, which were capped by amines with different hydrocarbon chains such as propylamine, octylamine, dodecylamine and octadecylamine. The introduction of nitrogen atoms and the hydrocarbon chains in the surface of the CQDs dramatically affected their photoluminescence profiles, quantum yields and solubility. The photoluminescence emission wavelength of these novel organic-soluble CQDs depended on the excitation wavelength and their quantum yields varied with the chain length of the hydrocarbon chain attached to the surface of the carbon dots.
- Carbon quantum dots,
- Carbon nanotubes,
- Photoluminescence,
- Quantum yield

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