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Hydrothermal Route for Cutting Graphene Sheets into Blue‐Luminescent Graphene Quantum Dots
Advanced Materials · 2009 · Vol. 22(6) · pp. 734–738
Dengyu Pan✉(Shanghai University)Jingchun Zhang(Shanghai University)Zhen Li(Shanghai University)Minghong Wu✉(Shanghai University)
Abstract
Water-soluble graphene quantum dots (GQDs, ca. 10 nm in diameter) that exhibit bright blue photoluminescence (PL) are prepared by hydrothermal (chemical) cutting of oxidized graphene sheets (see figure). The mechanisms of the cutting and luminescence are discussed. This discovery of PL of GQDs may extend the range of application of graphene-based materials to optoelectronics and biological labeling.
Carbon and Quantum Dots ApplicationsGraphene and Nanomaterials ApplicationsGraphene research and applicationsGrapheneMaterials scienceQuantum dotLuminescencePhotoluminescenceHydrothermal circulationNanotechnologyHydrothermal synthesisOptoelectronicsChemical engineering
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CarbonSpectrophotometry, UltravioletNanotubes, CarbonQuantum DotsLuminescencePhotoelectron Spectroscopy
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