Intrinsically fluorescent carbon dots with tunable emission derived from hydrothermal treatment of glucose in the presence of monopotassium phosphate†
Zheng-Chun Yang,Miao Wang,Anna Marie Yong,Siew Yee Wong,Xin-Hai Zhang,Happy Tan,Alex Yuangchi Chang,Xu Li,John Wang
Abstract
A facile method is developed to synthesize intrinsically fluorescent carbon dots by hydrothermal treatment of glucose in the presence of monopotassium phosphate. The fluorescence emission of the carbon dots thus produced is tunable by simply adjusting the concentration of monopotassium phosphate.
