title: Large scale electrochemical synthesis of high quality carbon nanodots and their photocatalytic property.
abstract: High quality carbon nanodots (C-dots) with high purity were synthesized through a mild, one-step electrochemical approach, without the assistance of any chemicals but only pure water. This high productivity method makes the synthetic process of C-dots synthesis both economical as well as environment-friendly. The as prepared C-dots are predominantly multi-layer graphene oxide, with luminescence and high up-conversion photoluminescence (emission of light at shorter wavelengths than the excitation wavelength). Meanwhile, C-dots showed peroxidise mimetic function and visible-light-sensitive photocatalytic activity for methyl orange degradation. In addition, a novel photocatalyst (TiO(2)/C-dots) was obtained by combining C-dots with TiO(2) through an easy hydrothermal method. Remarkably, TiO(2)/C-dots exhibited an excellent visible-light photocatalytic activity.
authors: Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, People's Republic of China.
authors: Hai
authors: H
authors: Ming
authors: Zheng
authors: Z
authors: Ma
authors: Yang
authors: Y
authors: Liu
authors: Keming
authors: K
authors: Pan
authors: Hang
authors: H
authors: Yu
authors: Fang
authors: F
authors: Wang
authors: Zhenhui
authors: Z
authors: Kang