title: Environment-dependent photon emission from solid state carbon dots and its mechanism.
abstract: Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have received great research interest in recent years, with applications in areas such as bio-imaging and chemical sensing. However, solid state photoluminescence of CDs and its related applications (e.g. optoelectronics) is a less explored territory. Here, we have systematically studied the photo emission of CDs in solid state. We found that their blue emission is highly dependent on whether the environment contains polar groups or not. Mechanism studies show that the blue emission of CDs may come from their C=O bonds conjugated with aromatic carbons, and the interaction between polar groups in environment and C=O bonds in CDs is responsible for the environment-dependent photo emission. Our conclusion here should assist the development of CDs' solid state applications.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.3888 Dongnanhu Road, 130033, Changchun, P. R. China. wangfei.ciomp@gmail.com zhaodx@ciomp.ac.cn.
authors: Yehao
authors: Y
authors: Deng
authors: Xing
authors: X
authors: Chen
authors: Fei
authors: F
authors: Wang
authors: Xueao
authors: X
authors: Zhang
authors: Dongxu
authors: D
authors: Zhao
authors: Dezhen
authors: D
authors: Shen