Sequential microfluidic flow synthesis of CePO4 nanorods decorated with emission tunable quantum dots.
CePO(4) nanorods decorated with QDs (QDs@CePO(4)) can be prepared in a sequential, aqueous procedure under continuous flow using a rotating tube processor and a narrow channel reactor. The emission from the QD@CePO(4) is tunable from green to red by simply adjusting the feeding rate, which in turn regulates the particle size of the QDs. The Ce(3+) ions in the QDs@CePO(4) serve as an efficient fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) donor, effectively enlarging the Stokes shift of the QDs.
Fang
Jie
J
Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, P. R. China. jiefang@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Evans
Cameron W
CW
Willis
Glen J
GJ
Sherwood
David
D
Guo
Yanglong
Y
Lu
Guanzhong
G
Raston
Colin L
CL
Iyer
K Swaminathan
KS
D002563:Cerium; D003460:Crystallization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D044085:Microfluidics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D010316:Particle Size; D010710:Phosphates / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D045663:Quantum Dots
D010710:Phosphates; D002563:Cerium; C048083:cerium phosphate