Amino Functionalization of Carbon Dots Leads to Red Emission Enhancement

The availability of carbon dots (CDots) with bright red photoluminescence (PL) would significantly broaden the range of their biological and optoelectronic applications. We present a theoretical model that predicts that amino functionalization of CDots not only shifts their PL to longer wavelengths...

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Veröffentlicht in:The journal of physical chemistry letters 2019-09, Vol.10 (17), p.5111-5116
Hauptverfasser: Kundelev, Evgeny V, Tepliakov, Nikita V, Leonov, Mikhail Yu, Maslov, Vladimir G, Baranov, Alexander V, Fedorov, Anatoly V, Rukhlenko, Ivan D, Rogach, Andrey L
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Zusammenfassung:The availability of carbon dots (CDots) with bright red photoluminescence (PL) would significantly broaden the range of their biological and optoelectronic applications. We present a theoretical model that predicts that amino functionalization of CDots not only shifts their PL to longer wavelengths but also preserves large oscillator strengths of the fundamental radiative transitions of CDots. The model considers the optical response of amino-functionalized CDots determined by molecule-like subunits of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with one, two, or three −NH2 groups at the CDots’ surface; the excited state of those subunits is characterized by strong charge separation between the amino groups and CDots’ carbon core. Such a separation determines the Stokes shift of the CDots’ emission, which increases with the growing amount of the amino functional groups at the CDot surface. Our model explains the experimentally observed dependence of the PL spectra of CDots on the excitation wavelength, the phenomenon well documented in the literature for nitrogen-containing CDots.
ISSN:1948-7185
1948-7185
DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01724