Synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots by a microwave heating process: structural characterization and cell imaging applications

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Stefanakis, Dimitrios ^a   Philippidis, Aggelos ^b   Sygellou, Labrini ^c   Filippidis, George ^b   Ghanotakis, Demetrios ^a   Anglos, Demetrios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbon nanoparticles; Fluorescent nanoparticles; Hela cells; Microwave synthesis; Multi photon excitation fluorescence microscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CITRIC ACID; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVE HEATING; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOPARTICLES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); URANIUM METALLOGRAPHY; UREA; VANADIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

CARBON NANO-PARTICLES; FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLES; HELA CELL; MICROWAVE SYNTHESIS; MULTIPHOTON EXCITATION;

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING;

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; CARBON DOTS; CARBON NANOPARTICLE; CITRATE TRISODIUM; CITRIC ACID; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL BOND; EXCITATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVE COOKING; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM YIELD; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84912532385     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-014-2646-1     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Beamson G, Briggs D (eds) (2010) The XPS of polymers database Version 1, Surface Spectra Ltd.
2. Bourlinos AB, Stassinopoulos A, Anglos D, Zboril R, Georgakilas V, Giannelis EP (2008a) Photoluminescent carbogenic dots. Chem Mater 20:4539–4541
3. Bourlinos AB, Stassinopoulos A, Anglos D, Zboril R, Karakassides M, Giannelis EP (2008b) Surface functionalized carbogenic quantum dots. Small 4:455–458
4. Cao L, Wang X, Meziani MJ, Lu FS, Wang HF, Luo PJG, Lin Y, Harruff BA, Veca LM, Murray D, Xie SY, Sun YP (2007) Carbon dots for multiphoton bioimaging. J Am Chem Soc 129:11318–11319
5. Hsu PC, Chang HT (2012) Synthesis of high-quality carbon nanodots from hydrophilic compounds: role of functional groups. Chem Commun 48:3984–3986
6. Hu SL, Niu KY, Sun J, Yang J, Zhao NQ, Du XW (2009) One-step synthesis of fluorescent carbon nanoparticles by laser irradiation. J Mater Chem 19:484–488
7. Jaiswal A, Ghosh SS, Chattopadhyay A (2012) One step synthesis of C-dots by microwave mediated caramelization of poly(ethylene glycol). Chem Commun 48:407–409
8. Jiang J, He Y, Li S, Cui H (2012) Amino acids as the source for producing carbon nanodots: microwave assisted one-step synthesis, intrinsic photoluminescence property and intense chemiluminescence enhancement. Chem Commun 48:9634–9636
9. Krysmann MJ, Kelarakis A, Dallas P, Giannelis EP (2012) Formation mechanism of carbogenic nanoparticles with dual photoluminescence emission. J Am Chem Soc 134:747–750
10. Liu C, Zhang P, Tian F, Li W, Li F, Liu W (2011) One-step synthesis of surface passivated carbon nanodots by microwave assisted pyrolysis for enhanced multicolor photoluminescence and bioimaging. J Mater Chem 21:13163–13167
11. Pan D, Zhang J, Li Z, Wu C, Yan X, Wu M (2010) Observation of pH-, solvent-, spin-, and excitation-dependent blue photoluminescence from carbon nanoparticles. Chem Commun 46:3681–3683
12. Peng H, Travas-Sejdic J (2009) Simple aqueous solution route to luminescent carbogenic dots from carbohydrates. Chem Mater 21:5563–5565
13. Philippidis A, Stefanakis D, Anglos D, Ghanotakis D (2013) Microwave heating of arginine yields highly fluorescent nanoparticles. J Nanopart Res 15:1414
14. Qu S, Wang X, Lu Q, Liu X, Wang L (2012) A biocompatible fluorescent ink based on water-soluble luminescent carbon nanodots. Angew Chem Int Ed 51:12215–12218
15. Sun YP, Zhou B, Lin Y, Wang W, Fernando KAS, Pathak P, Meziani MJ, Harruff BA, Wang X, Wang HF, Luo PJG, Yang H, Kose ME, Chen BL, Veca LM, Xie SY (2006) Quantum-sized carbon dots for bright and colorful photoluminescence. J Am Chem Soc 128:7756–7757
16. Tian L, Ghosh D, Chen W, Pradhan S, Chang X, Chen S (2009) Nanosized carbon particles from natural gas soot. Chem Mater 20(21):2803–2809
17. Wagner CD, Riggs WM, Davis LE, Moudler JF, Muilenberg GE (1978) Handbook of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Physical Electronics Division, Eden Prairie
18. Wang X, Qu K, Xu B, Ren J, Qu X (2011) Microwave assisted one-step green synthesis of cell-permeable multicolour photoluminescent carbon dots without surface passivation reagents. J Mater Chem 21:2445–2450
19. Yang ST, Cao L, Luo PG, Lu F, Wang X, Wang HF, Meziani MJ, Liu Y, Qi G, Sun YP (2009) Carbon dots for optical imaging in vivo. J Am Chem Soc 131:11308–11309
20. Yang Z, Li Z, Xu M, Ma Y, Zhang J, Su Y, Gao F, Wei H, Zhang L (2013) Controllable synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots and their detection application as nanoprobes. Nano-Micro Lett 5(4):247–259
21. Zhai X, Zhang P, Liu C, Bai T, Li W, Dai L, Liu W (2012) Highly luminescent carbon nanodots by microwave-assisted pyrolysis. Chem Commun 48:7955–7957
22. Zhu H, Wang X, Li Y, Wang Z, Yang F, Yang X (2009) Microwave synthesis of fluorescent carbon nanoparticles with electrochemiluminescence properties. Chem Commun 34:5118–5120
23. 2 spheres under mild condition. Chem Commun 47:1066–1068