Focusing on luminescent graphene quantum dots: current status and future perspectives
- 10 January 2013
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Nanoscale
- Vol. 5 (10), 4015-4039
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c3nr33849e
Abstract
To obtain graphene-based fluorescent materials, one of the effective approaches is to convert one-dimensional (1D) graphene to 0D graphene quantum dots (GQDs), yielding an emerging nanolight with extraordinary properties due to their remarkable quantum confinement and edge effects. In this review, the state-of-the-art knowledge of GQDs is presented. The synthetic methods were summarized, with emphasis on the top-down routes which possess the advantages of abundant raw materials, large scale production and simple operation. Optical properties of GQDs are also systematically discussed ranging from the mechanism, the influencing factors to the optical tunability. The current applications are also reviewed, followed by an outlook on their future and potential development, involving the effective synthetic methods, systematic photoluminescent mechanism, bandgap engineering, in addition to the potential applications in bioimaging, sensors, etc.This publication has 124 references indexed in Scilit:
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