Herein a novel approach is reported to achieve tunable and high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) from the self‐grown spherical TiO2 quantum dots (QDs) on fluorine doped TiO2 (F‐TiO2) flowers, mesoporous in nature, synthesized by a simple solvothermal process. The strong PL emission from F‐TiO2 QDs centered at ≈485 nm is associated with shallow and deep traps, and a record high PL QY of ≈5.76% is measured at room temperature. Size distribution and doping of F‐TiO2 nanocrystals (NCs) are successfully tuned by simply varying the HF concentration during synthesis. During the post‐growth rapid thermal annealing (RTA) under vacuum, the arbitrary shaped F‐TiO2 NCs transform into spherical QDs with smaller sizes and it shows dramatic enhancement (≈163 times) in the PL intensity. Electron spin resonance (ESR) and X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) confirm the high density of oxygen vacancy defects on the surface of TiO2 NCs. Confocal fluorescence microscopy imaging shows bright whitish emission from the F‐TiO2 QDs. Low temperature and time resolved PL studies reveal that the ultrafast radiative recombination in the TiO2 QDs results in highly efficient PL emission. A highly stable, biologically inert, and highly fluorescent TiO2 QDs/flowers without any capping agent demonstrated here is significant for emerging applications in bioimaging, energy, and environmental cleaning. 相似文献
Uniform water‐soluble monolayer MoS2 quantum dots (MQDs) with lateral sizes of ≈2.1 nm, a clearly zigzag‐terminated edge, and a hexagonal lattice structure are achieved using ammonium molybdate, thiourea, and N‐acetyl‐l ‐cysteine (NAC) as precursors and the capping reagent in a facile one‐pot hydrothermal approach. MQDs have good dispersity and high stability in aqueous suspension and exhibit a significantly larger direct bandgap (3.96 eV) compared to monolayer MoS2 nanosheets (1.89 eV). Pronounced blue‐shifts in the wavelengths of both the excitonic absorption and intrinsic state emission with activated strong luminescence at room temperature beyond monolayer MoS2 nanosheets is demonstrated. Unusual upconversion photoluminescence is also observed and is caused by two successive transfers of energy from the near‐infrared (NIR) absorption generated by the NAC capping reagent to the hexagonal structure of MQDs. Additional optical properties of MQDs may provide numerous exciting technological applications. Here, MQDs are demonstrated as a highly selective fluorescent reagent for detecting tetracycline hydrochloride under UV and NIR irradiation. 相似文献
It is of scientific importance to obtain graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with narrow‐size distribution in order to unveil their size‐dependent structural and optical properties, thereby further to explore the energy band diagram of GQDs. Here, a soft‐template microwave‐assisted hydrothermal method to prepare GQDs with diameters less than 5 nm ± 0.55 nm is reported. The size‐dependent photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) decay lifetime and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) of the GQDs are studied systematically. The QY of the GQDs with an average diameter of 2 nm is the highest (15%) among all the samples investigated and the QY decreases with increasing diameter of the GQDs. The size‐dependence of the PL decay lifetime is also observed. The result suggests that spatial confinement effects related to radiative relaxation play an important role in the size‐dependent decay lifetime. A realistic energy band diagram of the GQDs is deduced from the experimental results. 相似文献
利用金属蒸发真空多弧离子源(MEVVA源)注入机将Ti+离子注入到高纯石英玻璃衬底中,离子注入的加速电压为20 k V,注入剂量为1.5×1017和3×1017ions/cm2,将注入样品在氧气气氛下进行热退火处理,制备了TiO2纳米薄膜。采用光吸收谱、拉曼光谱、X射线光电子能谱、扫描电子显微镜和透射电子显微镜对注入样品进行了测试和表征,分析了TiO2薄膜的形成机理。在热退火过程中衬底中离子注入的Ti原子向外扩散到衬底表面被氧化形成了TiO2。TiO2的形成、晶粒尺寸和晶体结构依赖于热退火温度,而形成TiO2薄膜的厚度主要受离子注入剂量和热退火时间的影响。实验结果表明,该方法制备的TiO2纳米薄膜将有望应用于制备具有光催化、自清洁等特殊性能的自清洁玻璃。 相似文献
选用天然多糖中唯一的碱性多糖——壳聚糖作为稳定剂和包裹剂,成功合成了水溶性的Ag In S2量子点/低分子量壳聚糖纳米复合材料(Ag In S2/LCSMS)。利用透射电子显微镜(TEM)、FT-IR傅里叶红外光谱仪、紫外吸收光谱、荧光分光光度计等表征手段对纳米复合材料的形貌、化学组成及光学性质进行了研究。结果表明,Ag In S2/LCSMS纳米复合材料的粒径约为5~6 nm,在水相中仍具有较稳定的发光。之后,对Ag In S2/LCSMS纳米复合材料的生物相容性进行了研究,对比Ag In S2/LCSMS纳米复合材料与Ag In S2量子点的细胞活性测试结果发现,Ag In S2/LCSMS纳米复合材料的细胞活性比Ag In S2量子点有了明显的提高,说明通过低分子量壳聚糖的包裹可以明显提高纳米材料的生物相容性。因此,这类具有较好水溶性和生物相容性的荧光Ag In S2/LCSMS纳米复合材料可作为优良的生物荧光标记材料在生物医学检验、细胞以及活体成像研究中有广泛的应用前景。 相似文献
A kind of novel thermal history nanosensors are theoretically designed and experimentally demonstrated to permanently record thermal events. The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of core‐shelled quantum dots (QDs) CdSe/ZnS irreversibly shifts with heating histories (temperature and duration) of thermal events. The induced PL shift of the QDs CdSe/ZnS is employed to permanently record thermal histories. We further model a kind of thermal history nanosensor based on the thermal‐induced phenomena of core‐shelled QDs to permanently record thermal histories at microscale and demonstrate to reconstruct temperature and duration of heating events simultaneously from PL spectra of the QDs. The physical mechanism of the sensors is discussed. 相似文献
Zero‐dimensional photoluminescent (PL) graphene quantum dots (GQDs) that can be used as the cell‐imaging reagent are prepared by a hydrothermal route using the graphene oxide (GO) as the carbon source. Under the optimized hydrothermal conditions, an initial hydrogen peroxide concentration of 0.5 mg mL?1 at 180 °C for 120 min, the GO sheets can be cut into nanocrystals with lateral dimensions in the range of 1.5–5.5 nm and an average thickness of around 1.1 nm. The as‐prepared GQDs exhibit an abundance of hydrophilic hydroxy and carboxyl groups and emit bright blue luminescence with up‐conversion properties in a water solution at neutral pH. Most interestingly, they indicate excitation‐independent emission characteristics, and the surface state is demonstrated to have a key role in the PL properties. The fluorescence quantum yield of the GQDs is tested to be around 6.99% using quinine sulfate as a standard. In addition, the as‐prepared GQDs can enter into HeLa cells easily as a fluorescent imaging reagent without any further functionalization, indicating they are aqueous stability, biocompatibility, and promising for potential applications in biolabeling and solution state optoelectronics. 相似文献
The transfer characteristics (ID–VG) of multilayers MoS2 transistors with a SiO2/Si backgate and Ni source/drain contacts have been measured on as‐prepared devices and after annealing at different temperatures (Tann from 150 °C to 200 °C) under a positive bias ramp (VG from 0 V to +20 V). Larger Tann resulted in a reduced hysteresis of the ID–VG curves (from ~11 V in the as‐prepared sample to ~2.5 V after Tann at 200 °C). The field effect mobility (~30 cm2 V–1 s–1) remained almost unchanged after the annealing. On the contrary, the subthreshold characteristics changed from the common n‐type behaviour in the as‐prepared device to the appearance of a low current hole inversion branch after annealing. This latter effect indicates a modification of the Ni/MoS2 contact that can be explained by the formation of a low density of regions with reduced Schottky barrier height (SBH) for holes embedded in a background with low SBH for electrons. Furthermore, a temperature dependent analysis of the subthreshold characteristics revealed a reduction of the interface traps density from ~9 × 1011 eV–1cm–2in the as‐prepared device to ~2 × 1011 eV–1cm–2after the 200 °C temperature–bias annealing, which is consistent with the observed hysteresis reduction.
Schematic representation of a back‐gated multilayer MoS2 field effect transistor (left) and transfer characteristics (right) measured at 25 °C on an as‐prepared device and after the temperature–bias annealing at 200 °C under a positive gate bias ramp from 0 V to +20 V. 相似文献