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J Mater Chem B
; 2(29): 4631-4639, 2014 Aug 07.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32262275
RESUMO
Highly nitrogen-doped carbon dots (N-CDs) are prepared by the pyrolysis of konjac flour under mild conditions followed with a simple extraction by ethanol and water. The N-CDs exhibit excellent pH-switched photoluminescence (PL), and their PL intensity can be facilitated by either mixing with NaOH and basic amino acids or by surface passivation with non-amine-terminated polyethylene glycols of different molecular weights. Further, the fluorescence of N-CDs can be quenched with Fe3+ and recovered with l-lysine, accompanied with a red-shift of emission wavelength. In addition, the low toxicity and strongly fluorescent N-CDs are applied for cell imaging, and the quenched fluorescence by Fe3+ can be recovered inside the living cells.