Sustainable Chemistry: From Wine Industry Waste (Wine Lees) to Luminescent Ink-jet Inks Containing Carbon Dots
Massimo Varisco,
Denis Zufferey,
Olimpia Mamula Steiner
Affiliations
Massimo Varisco
HES-SO Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture Fribourg, Institute of Chemical Technology, Boulevard de Pérolles 80, CH-1705 Fribourg, Switzerland
Denis Zufferey
HES-SO Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture Fribourg, Institute of Chemical Technology, Boulevard de Pérolles 80, CH-1705 Fribourg, Switzerland
Olimpia Mamula Steiner
HES-SO Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture Fribourg, Institute of Chemical Technology, Boulevard de Pérolles 80, CH-1705 Fribourg, Switzerland. [email protected]
Carbon nanodots can be obtained in good yields by direct combustion of an abundant waste from the wine industry, wine lees. The extraction of these nanoparticles followed by their chemical functionalization lead to an ink-jettable material emitting in the visible region (blue) under specific UV irradiation.
