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Design of Carbon Dots Photoluminescence through Organo-Functional Silane Grafting for Solid-State Emitting Devices
Masahide TakahashiLuca MalfattiLuca MalfattiMasanori TakemotoYasuaki TokudomeKazumasa SuzukiKazumasa SuzukiPlinio InnocenziPlinio InnocenziDavide CarboniDavide CarboniFabrizio Messinasubject
Materials sciencePhotoluminescenceFabricationSciencechemistry.chemical_elementNanotechnology02 engineering and technology010402 general chemistry01 natural sciencesArticlechemistry.chemical_compoundNanoscopic scaleMultidisciplinaryQSettore FIS/01 - Fisica SperimentaleR021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyGraftingSilane0104 chemical scienceschemistryPolymerizationMedicineSurface modification0210 nano-technologyCarbondescription
AbstractAdvanced optical applications of fluorescent carbon dots (C-dots) require highly integrated host-guest solid-state materials with a careful design of C-dots – matrix interface to control the optical response. We have developed a new synthesis based on the grafting of an organo-functional silane (3-glycidyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane, GPTMS) on amino-functionalized C-dots, which enables the fabrication of highly fluorescent organosilica-based hybrid organic-inorganic films through sol-gel process. The GPTMS grafting onto C-dots has been achieved via an epoxy–amine reaction under controlled conditions. Besides providing an efficient strategy to embed C-dots into a hybrid solid-state material, the modification of C-dots surface by GPTMS allows tuning their photoluminescence properties and gives rise to an additional, intense emission around 490 nm. Photoluminescence spectra reveal an interaction between C-dots surface and the polymeric chains which are locally formed by GPTMS polymerization. The present method is a step forward to the development of a surface modification technology aimed at controlling C-dots host-guest systems at the nanoscale.
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| 2017-07-01 |