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Joint Conference
July 17-18, 2017 Chicago, USA
International Conference on
DIAMOND AND CARBON MATERIALS & GRAPHENE AND SEMICONDUCTORS
Volume 6, Issue 6 (Suppl)
J Material Sci Eng, an open access journal
ISSN: 2169-0022
Diamond and Carbon 2017 & Graphene 2017
July 17-18, 2017
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Synthesis of carbon quantum dots with tunable luminescence
Svetlana A Smagulova, Alexandra E Tomskaya, Marfa N Egorova
and
Albert N Kapitonov
North-Eastern Federal University, Russia
C
hemically synthesized graphene oxide (GO) has fluorescent properties due to the presence of oxygen functional groups.
The presence of those groups such as carboxyl, hydroxyl, epoxy, etc. contributes to the appearance of structural defects
and opening of band gap in GO. In this regard GO fluoresces in the range of wavelengths from ultraviolet to near infrared
region. There are some methods of modifying the structure of the GO that change the photoluminescence spectrum and
give rise to electroluminescence, for example, some authors associate the appearance of the electroluminescence with the
formation of quantum dots of GO. Change of the emission wavelength depending on the photoexcitation energy has great
potential for the creation of OLED phosphors, because modern phosphors can emit only a specific wavelength. But obtaining
electroluminescence of GO is difficult due to structural defects on the plane and the edges of GO flakes, which prevent efficient
charge transport. Current interest is the synthesis of new carbon material, which would have the same fluorescent properties
as well as GO and have the defect-free structure. In this paper we report the synthesis of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) by
hydrothermal treatment of the carbon precursor (glucose, citric acid, and gelatin) in the aqueous ammonia. The synthesized
CQDs solution has oxygen groups that are drawn into the mechanism of luminescence of the GO. CQDs with lateral sizes
around ~ 30-100 nm were obtained using a special method of hydrothermal treatment. The luminescent properties of CQDs
change with a decrease of the lateral size of flakes and with the increasing of oxidation degree: The increasing of intensity
of the emission spectrum and narrowing of the emission spectrum is observed. The photoluminescence spectrum CQDs
with increasing of excitation wavelength shifts towards the red wavelengths. Furthermore, the analysis of growth of CQDs
depending of the processing time, the concentration of the original solution and temperature was carried for finding optimal
luminescent characteristics of CQDs.
Biography
Svetlana A Smagulova is the Chief Scientist, Head of “Graphene Nanotechnology” Laboratory at Institute of Physics and Technologies of North-Eastern Federal
University, Yakutsk and her field of scientific interests are the creation and research of new materials based on graphene: A suspension of (graphene oxide,
graphene, fluorographene), film, paper, layered structures, hybrid material, graphene structures with quantum dots, composite materials (polymers, rubber with the
addition of graphene oxide). Also, the development of technologies for the creation of electronic devices based on graphene: Humidity sensor based on graphene
and graphene oxide, electric double layer capacitors, strain gauges. The use of graphene in medicine: Development of test systems for DNA diagnostics of
hereditary diseases based on graphene oxide; working out and creation of graphene-based aptasensor for rapid analysis of thrombin in the blood.
smagulova@mail.ruSvetlana A Smagulova et al., J Material Sci Eng 2017, 6:6(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2169-0022-C1-077