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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik
MM 49: Nanomaterials II: Synthesis
MM 49.3: Talk
Thursday, March 10, 2016, 10:45–11:00, H39
Carbon Dots: A Unique Fluorescent Cocktail of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons — •Florian Ehrat1, Ming Fu1, Santanu Bhattacharyya1, Yu Wang2, Jacek Stolarczyk1, Andrey Rogach2, Alexander Urban1, and Jochen Feldmann1 — 1Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany — 2Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted rapidly growing interest due to their exceptional advantages such as high fluorescence quantum yield, chemical stability and biocompatibility. Recently the fluorescent CDs have been used for bioimaging, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, as light-emitting diodes, and for lasing. However, the intrinsic mechanism and origin of the fluorescence in CDs have not yet been completely understood.
We have recently developed a model system of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules embedded in a polymer matrix to reproduce the optical properties of CDs.[1] In particular, a large Stokes shift of more than 100 nm as well as excitation wavelength dependent emission properties could be achieved by fine-tuning of the concentration of only three different molecules. Therefore we conclude that these can be seen as the main emissive species within a CD. These results will help to enable specifically tailoring the optical characteristics of CDs.
[1] M. Fu, F. Ehrat, et al., Nano Lett. 2015, 15 (9), 6030-6035.