title: Down- and up-conversion luminescent carbon dot fluid: inkjet printing and gel glass fabrication.
abstract: Room temperature liquid-like nanoparticles have emerged as an exciting new research and development area, because their properties could be tailored over a broad range by manipulating geometric and chemical characteristics of the inorganic core and organic canopy. However, related applications are rarely reported due to the multi-step synthesis process and potential toxicity of cadmium based nanomaterials. In this study, we prepared inexpensive and eco-friendly carbon dot fluid by the direct thermal decomposition method. The carbon dot fluid can be excited from UV to near infrared light, and can be prepared as highly concentrated luminescent ink or incorporated into sol-gel derived organically modified silicate glass, suggesting that it has great application potential in the field of printable electronics, solid state lighting and so on.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China. cyliu@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Fu
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Wendong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Chun-yan
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Liu