Preparation of carbon quantum dots with a high quantum yield and the application in labeling bovine serum albumin

2016 ◽  
Vol 368 ◽  
pp. 122-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengpeng Liu ◽  
Changchang Zhang ◽  
Xiang Liu ◽  
Ping Cui
Carbon ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 559
Author(s):  
Hua Lu ◽  
Xiao-hui Shan ◽  
Jiao Chen ◽  
Yu-han Jiang ◽  
Jian-qiu Chen ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (27) ◽  
pp. 5397-5402 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Skaltsas ◽  
M. Goulielmaki ◽  
A. Pintzas ◽  
S. Pispas ◽  
N. Tagmatarchis

Carbon quantum dots/block copolymer/bovine serum albumin nanoensembles for metal ion sensing and bioimaging.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Ren ◽  
Fang Zhang ◽  
Bingpeng Guo ◽  
Na Gao ◽  
Xiaoling Zhang

Pursuit of a simple, fast, and cost-effective method to prepare highly and dual-wavelength fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) is a persistent objective in recent years. Here, we fabricated N-doped micropore carbon quantum dots (NM-CQDs) with a high quantum yield and dual-wavelength photoluminescence (PL) emission from sustainable biomass using a pulsed laser ablation method. Interestingly, two coexisting indigo–blue photoluminescence (PL) emissions were clearly observed, elucidating that the excited electrons transited from the intrinsic π* orbital to the surface state (SS) formed from the saturation passivation. The quantum yield (QY) and fluorescence lifetime (FL) of the obtained NM-CQDs were as high as 32.4% and 6.56 ns. Further investigations indicated that the emission behaviors of NM-CQDs were still stable and independent in various conditions such as various excitation wavelengths, salt ionic concentrations, pH values, irradiation times, and temperatures. The obtained NM-CQDs are very suitable for cellular staining images due to strong and stable PL emission and show good internalization in different cells. Therefore, we propose a new and cost-effective preparation strategy for highly fluorescent NM-CQDs with great potential in biomedical imaging and engineering.


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