Exploring Tetrathiafulvalene-Carbon Nanodots Conjugates in Charge Transfer Reactions
Carbon nanodots (CNDs) have been synthesized using low-cost and biocompatible starting materials such as citric acid/urea, under microwave irradiation and constant pressure conditions. The obtained pressure synthesized CNDs (pCND) were covalently modified with photo- and electro-active π-extended te...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/11972 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/11972 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 547 carbon nanodots ·charge transfer ·donor–acceptor systems ·excited state dynamics ·tetrathiafulvalene Química orgánica (Química) 2306 Química Orgánica |
| Sumario: | Carbon nanodots (CNDs) have been synthesized using low-cost and biocompatible starting materials such as citric acid/urea, under microwave irradiation and constant pressure conditions. The obtained pressure synthesized CNDs (pCND) were covalently modified with photo- and electro-active π-extended tetrathiafulvalene (exTTF) by means of a two-step esterification reaction affording pCND-exTTF. The electronic interactions between the CNDs and exTTF were investigated in the ground and excited states. Ultrafast pump-probe experiments assisted in corroborating that charge separation governs the deactivation of photoexcited pCND-exTTF. These size-regular structures, as revealed by AFM, are stable electron donor-acceptor conjugates of interest for a better understanding of basic processes such as artificial photosynthesis, catalysis and photovoltaics, involving readily available fluorescent nanodots. |
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