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Feng Huo1,2, Yuhang Liu1,2, Mingguang Zhu1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Analytical Testing Center, Institute of Micro/Nano Intelligent Sensing , Neijiang Normal University , Neijiang 641100 , PR China.
Abstract:
In this paper, two kinds of novel carbon nanocrystals (CNCs) with different crystal morphologies (the branch-chain young sprout form (CM1) and conifer-pine form (CM2)) were obtained in a controllable way. The mechanism of crystal morphological development was explored well. When the two kinds of the CNCs were dissolved in different polar solvents, they voluntarily become "ultrafine crystals" at the moment. After that, the ultrabright full color carbon dots (UBFCCDs) have been preliminarily prepared by fine-controlling. With the evaporation of the solvents, the CNCs crystallized again, which could repeat back and forth many times. After the conditions of preparing for CDs were optimized carefully, the as-prepared CDs exhibit ultrabright effects of multiexcitation and multiemission (from blue to red) and can show unique up-conversion luminescence characteristics under a lower excitation wavelength of 660 nm instead of a near-infrared wavelength of 980 or 808 nm. Significantly, the QY% of the UBFCCDs can reach 78.0%, which is higher than that of the traditional hydrothermal methods of discarding precipitation and carrying out dialysis (QY% = 69.0%). The as-prepared CDs can be used for multicolor biomedical imaging in vivo and in vitro and metal ion sensing and also show their potential value for industrial applications.
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