Facile Synthesis of Water-Stable Multicolor Carbonized Polymer Dots from a Single Unconjugated Glucose for Engineering White Light-Emitting Diodes with a High Color Rendering Index

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Zhao, Yingnan
Ou, Cailing
Yu, Jingkun
Zhang, Yongqiang
Song, Haoqiang
Zhai, Yunpu
Tang, Zhiyong
Lu, Siyu
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2021
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Tunable emission carbonized polymer dots (CPDs) are highly desirable for the preparation of optoelectronic devices, especially white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs). In most available studies, polychromatic CPDs are synthesized using aromatic molecules as precursors. However, few studies report the successful synthesis of polychromatic CPDs using two or more unconjugated precursors. In this work, we prepare multicolor fluorescent CPDs from a single unconjugated precursor, glucose, via a hydrothermal reaction. By controlling the particle size and degree of graphitization of the synthesized CPDs, their emission wavelength can be tuned in the range 440-625 nm (i.e., almost the entire visible region). Furthermore, the CPDs can be used to construct LEDs of varying colors, including WLEDs (CIE coordinates: 0.34, 0.36) with the correlated color temperature and color rendering index of 4997 K and 92.69, respectively. In brief, the strategy proposed in this study successfully converts unconjugated glucose into high-performance LEDs with great application potential.

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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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13

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25

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Chemical sciences

Engineering

LEDs

carbonized polymer dots

high color rendering index

multicolor

unconjugated precursor

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Zhao, Y; Ou, C; Yu, J; Zhang, Y; Song, H; Zhai, Y; Tang, Z; Lu, S, Facile Synthesis of Water-Stable Multicolor Carbonized Polymer Dots from a Single Unconjugated Glucose for Engineering White Light-Emitting Diodes with a High Color Rendering Index, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13 (25), pp. 30098-30105

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