Bottom-up carbon dots: purification, single-particle dynamics, and electronic structure

Bian, Zhengyi; Gomez, Eric; Gruebele, Martin; Levine, Benjamin G.; Link, Stephan; Mehmood, Arshad; Nie, Shuming

doi:10.1039/D4SC05843G

Title: Bottom-up carbon dots: purification, single-particle dynamics, and electronic structure

Journal Article · 04 March 2025 · Chemical Science

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC05843G · OSTI ID:2519048

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Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Carle-Illinois College of Medicine University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

For carbon dots, careful purification and electronic structure calculations facilitate learning about the origin of optical properties.

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