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Photoluminescent Carbon Nanomaterials: Properties and Potential Applications

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NanoScience in Biomedicine

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Carbon nanoparticles and nanotubes upon surface passivation or modification via chemical functionalization exhibit strong photoluminescence in the visible and into the near-IR. In this Chapter, the general features and related optical characteristics of the photoluminescence are highlighted, mechanistic issues discussed, and their potential material and biomedical applications explored. For single-walled carbon nanotubes, the similarities and differences between the defect-derived emission and the band-gap fluorescence (emission from individualized single-walled carbon nanotubes) are also discussed.

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Sun, Y. et al. (2009). Photoluminescent Carbon Nanomaterials: Properties and Potential Applications. In: Shi, D. (eds) NanoScience in Biomedicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49661-8_6

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