Amphiphilic egg-derived carbon dots: Rapid plasma fabrication, pyrolysis process, and multicolor printing patterns

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Abstract

How do you like your eggs? Amphiphilic carbon dots (CDs) with intense blue fluorescence have been produced from chicken eggs by treatment with plasma. They are used as effective "fluorescent carbon inks" for multicolor luminescent inkjet and silk-screen printing (see image).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9297-9301
Number of pages5
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume51
Issue number37
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Sep 2012

Keywords

  • carbon dots
  • inkjet printing
  • photoluminescence
  • plasma chemistry
  • quantum dots

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