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Tuning Carbon Dots’ Optoelectronic Properties with Polymers
Due to their unique properties of photoluminescence, biocompatibility, photostability, ease of preparing, and low cost, carbon dots have been studied extensively over the last decade. Soon after their discovery, it was realized that their main optical attributes may be protected, enhanced, and tuned...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6401920/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30961237 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10121312 |
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description | Due to their unique properties of photoluminescence, biocompatibility, photostability, ease of preparing, and low cost, carbon dots have been studied extensively over the last decade. Soon after their discovery, it was realized that their main optical attributes may be protected, enhanced, and tuned upon proper surface passivation or functionalization. Therefore, up to date, numerous polymers have been used for these purposes, resulting to higher-quality carbon dots regarding their quantum yield or further emission-related aspects and compared to the primitive, bare ones. Hence, this review aims to clarify the polymers’ role and effect on carbon dots and their features focusing on the quality characteristics of their photoluminescence upon passivation or functionalization. Given in fact the numbers of relevant publications, emphasis is given on recent articles capturing the latest advances for polymers in carbon dots for expanding emission lifetimes, advancing quantum yields, tuning emission wavelengths, enhancing specific spectral range absorption, and tailoring optoelectronic properties in general. |
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spelling | pubmed-64019202019-04-02 Tuning Carbon Dots’ Optoelectronic Properties with Polymers Dimos, Konstantinos Polymers (Basel) Review Due to their unique properties of photoluminescence, biocompatibility, photostability, ease of preparing, and low cost, carbon dots have been studied extensively over the last decade. Soon after their discovery, it was realized that their main optical attributes may be protected, enhanced, and tuned upon proper surface passivation or functionalization. Therefore, up to date, numerous polymers have been used for these purposes, resulting to higher-quality carbon dots regarding their quantum yield or further emission-related aspects and compared to the primitive, bare ones. Hence, this review aims to clarify the polymers’ role and effect on carbon dots and their features focusing on the quality characteristics of their photoluminescence upon passivation or functionalization. Given in fact the numbers of relevant publications, emphasis is given on recent articles capturing the latest advances for polymers in carbon dots for expanding emission lifetimes, advancing quantum yields, tuning emission wavelengths, enhancing specific spectral range absorption, and tailoring optoelectronic properties in general. MDPI 2018-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6401920/ /pubmed/30961237 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10121312 Text en © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Dimos, Konstantinos Tuning Carbon Dots’ Optoelectronic Properties with Polymers |
title | Tuning Carbon Dots’ Optoelectronic Properties with Polymers |
title_full | Tuning Carbon Dots’ Optoelectronic Properties with Polymers |
title_fullStr | Tuning Carbon Dots’ Optoelectronic Properties with Polymers |
title_full_unstemmed | Tuning Carbon Dots’ Optoelectronic Properties with Polymers |
title_short | Tuning Carbon Dots’ Optoelectronic Properties with Polymers |
title_sort | tuning carbon dots’ optoelectronic properties with polymers |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6401920/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30961237 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10121312 |
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