Title
Chiral carbon dots and their effect on the optical properties of photosensitizers
Author
Manash Jyoti Deka, Devasish Chowdhury
Year
2017
Journal
RSC Advances
Abstract
In this work, we have successfully prepared chiral carbon dots from chiral precursors. We prepared a few D-carbon dots using D-methionine, D-glucose, D-glucosamine, and L-carbon dots from L-methionine, L-aspartic acid and L-alanine. We also demonstrate that the chirality of the carbon dots can affect the optical properties of photosensitizer molecules like azobenzene. In the presence of azobenzene, D-carbon dots and L-carbon dots interacted differently when irradiated with UV light, as azobenzene in the presence of UV transforms from stable trans to metastable cis form. Thus azobenzene can react differently with D- and L-carbon dots when irradiated with UV light.
Instrument
FP-8300
Keywords
Fluorescence, Photoluminescence, Nanostructures, Materials