Boyang Wang1, Jingkun Yu1, Laizhi Sui2, Shoujun Zhu3, Zhiyong Tang4,5, Bai Yang3, Siyu Lu1. 1. Green Catalysis Center and College of Chemistry Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450000 China. 2. State Key Lab of Molecular Reaction Dynamics Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Dalian 116023 China. 3. State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China. 4. Henan Institute of Advanced Technology Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450000 China. 5. CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing 100190 China.
Abstract
As an emerging building unit, carbon dots (CDs) have been igniting the revolutionaries in the fields of optoelectronics, biomedicine, and bioimaging. However, the difficulty of synthesizing CDs in aqueous solution with full-spectrum emission severely hinders further investigation of their emission mechanism and their extensive applications in white light emitting diodes (LEDs). Here, the full-color-emission CDs with a unique structure consisting of sp 3-hybridized carbon cores with small domains of partially sp 2-hybridized carbon atoms are reported. First-principle calculations are initially used to predict that the transformation from sp 3 to sp 2 hybridization redshifts the emission of CDs. Guided by the theoretical predictions, a simple, convenient, and controllable route to hydrothermally prepare CDs in a single reaction system is developed. The prepared CDs have full-spectrum emission with an unprecedented two-photon emission across the whole visible color range. These full-color-emission CDs can be further nurtured by slight modifications of the reaction conditions (e.g., temperature, pH) to generate the emission color from blue to red. Finally a flexible LEDs with full-color emission by using epoxy CDs films is developed, indicating that the strategy affords an industry translational potential over traditional fluorophores.
As an emerging building unit, n class="Chemical">carbon dotsn> (CDs) have been igniting the revolutionaries in the fields of optoelectronics, biomedicine, and bioimaging. However, the difficulty of synthesizing CDs in aqueous solution with full-spectrum emission severely hinders further investigation of their emission mechanism and their extensive applications in white light emitting diodes (LEDs). Here, the full-color-emission CDs with a unique structure consisting of sp 3-hybridized carbon cores with small domains of partially sp 2-hybridized carbon atoms are reported. First-principle calculations are initially used to predict that the transformation from sp 3 to sp 2 hybridization redshifts the emission of CDs. Guided by the theoretical predictions, a simple, convenient, and controllable route to hydrothermally prepare CDs in a single reaction system is developed. The prepared CDs have full-spectrum emission with an unprecedented two-photon emission across the whole visible color range. These full-color-emission CDs can be further nurtured by slight modifications of the reaction conditions (e.g., temperature, pH) to generate the emission color from blue to red. Finally a flexible LEDs with full-color emission by using epoxy CDs films is developed, indicating that the strategy affords an industry translational potential over traditional fluorophores.
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