Carbon Nanoparticles as Chromophores for Photon Harvesting and Photoconversion
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2011
Publication Source
ChemPhysChem
Abstract
Carbon nanomaterials have generated a tremendous amount of attention in the scientific community. While most of the research and development efforts have been on fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene sheets, carbon nanoparticles (which are often considered as impurities or unwanted complications in the other carbon nanomaterials) have recently emerged as a unique class of highly fluorescent nano-dots. However, little or no attention has been paid to potential uses of carbon nanoparticles as chromophores in photochemical reactions or for photon harvesting and photoconversion in general. In the study reported herein we demonstrate the chromophore-equivalent functions of aqueous-suspended small carbon nanoparticles in harvesting visible photons for the reductive coating of the nanoparticles with silver and gold and, as a result, the preparation of unique carbon–noble-metal core–shell nanostructures.
Inclusive pages
3604–3608
ISBN/ISSN
1439-4235
Copyright
Copyright © 2011, Wiley-VCH Verlag
Publisher
Wiley-VCH Verlag
Volume
12
Peer Reviewed
yes
Issue
18
eCommons Citation
Xu, Juan; Sahu, Sushant; Cao, Li; Anilkumar, Parambath; Tackett, Kenneth N. II; Qian, Haijun; Bunker, Christopher E.; Guliants, Elena A.; Parenzan, Alexander; and Sun, Ya-Ping, "Carbon Nanoparticles as Chromophores for Photon Harvesting and Photoconversion" (2011). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications. 147.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ece_fac_pub/147
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