Carbon Nanoparticles as Chromophores for Photon Harvesting and Photoconversion
- 13 October 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Chemphyschem
- Vol. 12 (18), 3604-3608
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201100640
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.Keywords
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