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Biobased Carbon Dots: From Fish Scales to Photocatalysis

The synthesis, characterization and photoreduction ability of a new class of carbon dots made from fish scales is here described. Fish scales are a waste material that contains mainly chitin, one of the most abundant natural biopolymers, and collagen. These components make the scales rich, not only...

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Autores principales: Campalani, Carlotta, Cattaruzza, Elti, Zorzi, Sandro, Vomiero, Alberto, You, Shujie, Matthews, Lauren, Capron, Marie, Mondelli, Claudia, Selva, Maurizio, Perosa, Alvise
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7922425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33670807
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano11020524
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author Campalani, Carlotta
Cattaruzza, Elti
Zorzi, Sandro
Vomiero, Alberto
You, Shujie
Matthews, Lauren
Capron, Marie
Mondelli, Claudia
Selva, Maurizio
Perosa, Alvise
author_facet Campalani, Carlotta
Cattaruzza, Elti
Zorzi, Sandro
Vomiero, Alberto
You, Shujie
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description The synthesis, characterization and photoreduction ability of a new class of carbon dots made from fish scales is here described. Fish scales are a waste material that contains mainly chitin, one of the most abundant natural biopolymers, and collagen. These components make the scales rich, not only in carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, but also in nitrogen. These self-nitrogen-doped carbonaceous nanostructured photocatalyst were synthesized from fish scales by a hydrothermal method in the absence of any other reagents. The morphology, structure and optical properties of these materials were investigated. Their photocatalytic activity was compared with the one of conventional nitrogen-doped carbon dots made from citric acid and diethylenetriamine in the photoreduction reaction of methyl viologen.
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spelling pubmed-79224252021-03-03 Biobased Carbon Dots: From Fish Scales to Photocatalysis Campalani, Carlotta Cattaruzza, Elti Zorzi, Sandro Vomiero, Alberto You, Shujie Matthews, Lauren Capron, Marie Mondelli, Claudia Selva, Maurizio Perosa, Alvise Nanomaterials (Basel) Article The synthesis, characterization and photoreduction ability of a new class of carbon dots made from fish scales is here described. Fish scales are a waste material that contains mainly chitin, one of the most abundant natural biopolymers, and collagen. These components make the scales rich, not only in carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, but also in nitrogen. These self-nitrogen-doped carbonaceous nanostructured photocatalyst were synthesized from fish scales by a hydrothermal method in the absence of any other reagents. The morphology, structure and optical properties of these materials were investigated. Their photocatalytic activity was compared with the one of conventional nitrogen-doped carbon dots made from citric acid and diethylenetriamine in the photoreduction reaction of methyl viologen. MDPI 2021-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7922425/ /pubmed/33670807 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano11020524 Text en © 2021 by the authors. 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/).
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Selva, Maurizio
Perosa, Alvise
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33670807
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano11020524
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