Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Structure-controllable growth of nitrogenated graphene quantum dots via solvent catalysis for selective C-N bond activation

  • Byung Joon Moon,
  • Sang Jin Kim,
  • Aram Lee,
  • Yelin Oh,
  • Seoung-Ki Lee,
  • Sang Hyun Lee,
  • Tae-Wook Kim,
  • Byung Hee Hong,
  • Sukang Bae

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26122-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Photophysical and photochemical features of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) strongly depend on their chemical nature that remains challenging to be controlled in a systematic and uniform manner. Here the authors report an efficient solvent-catalyst-aided growth of chemically tailored N-doped GQDs.