Artigo Revisado por pares

High photoluminescent nitrogen-doped carbon dots with unique double wavelength fluorescence emission for cell imaging

2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 216; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.matlet.2018.01.002

ISSN

1873-4979

Autores

Wenli Gao, Yiming Ma, Yanmei Zhou, Haohan Song, Li Li, Shanhu Liu, Xiaoqiang Liu, Bin Gao, Chuanzhi Liu, Kunpeng Zhang,

Tópico(s)

Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Resumo

High photoluminescent (PL) nitrogen-doped carbon dots (N-CDs) have been synthesized using ferric ammonium citrate (FAC) and urea as raw materials by simple one-pot hydrothermal process. The N-CDs possess bright blue fluorescence (centred at 450 nm; 36.2% quantum yield) and green fluorescence (centred at 530 nm; 47.6% quantum yield) only by adjusting the excitation wavelength from 310 nm to 510 nm. The N-CDs exhibited high N content of 32.81 wt%, low cytotoxicity, and good PL stability at different pH values, ion strengths and temperature, respectively. As-prepared N-CDs were explored for cell imaging with great biocompatibility. The remarkable properties of N-CDs indicated their potential toward sensing and biological applications.

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