Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Effect of nitrogen atom positioning on the trade-off between emissive and photocatalytic properties of carbon dots

  • Santanu Bhattacharyya,
  • Florian Ehrat,
  • Patrick Urban,
  • Roland Teves,
  • Regina Wyrwich,
  • Markus Döblinger,
  • Jochen Feldmann,
  • Alexander S. Urban,
  • Jacek K. Stolarczyk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01463-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Carbon dots are an emergent class of nanomaterials that hold promise for innovations in imaging, sensing, and catalytic technologies. Here, Stolarczyk and colleagues control the nitrogen-atom content and location within carbon dots, reporting the resulting impact on emissivity and photocatalytic behaviour.