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Intercrossed Carbon Nanorings with Pure Surface States as Low‐Cost and Environment‐Friendly Phosphors for White‐Light‐Emitting Diodes
Author(s) -
Li Xiaoming,
Liu Yanli,
Song Xiufeng,
Wang Hao,
Gu Haoshuang,
Zeng Haibo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1521-3757
pISSN - 0044-8249
DOI - 10.1002/ange.201406836
Subject(s) - phosphor , luminescence , nanomaterials , light emitting diode , materials science , carbon fibers , diode , fluorescence , optoelectronics , quenching (fluorescence) , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , optics , composite material , composite number , physics , engineering
As an important energy‐saving technique, white‐light‐emitting diodes (W‐LEDs) have been seeking for low‐cost and environment‐friendly substitutes for rare‐earth‐based expensive phosphors or Pd 2+ /Cd 2+ ‐based toxic quantum dots (QDs). In this work, precursors and chemical processes were elaborately designed to synthesize intercrossed carbon nanorings (IC‐CNRs) with relatively pure hydroxy surface states for the first time, which enable them to overcome the aggregation‐induced quenching (AIQ) effect, and to emit stable yellow‐orange luminescence in both colloidal and solid states. As a direct benefit of such scarce solid luminescence from carbon nanomaterials, W‐LEDs with color coordinate at (0.28, 0.27), which is close to pure white light (0.33, 0.33), were achieved through using these low‐temperature‐synthesized and toxic ion‐free IC‐CNRs as solid phosphors on blue LED chips. This work demonstrates that the design of surface states plays a crucial role in exploring new functions of fluorescent carbon nanomaterials.