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Sulfur and Nitrogen Co-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots as a Fluorescent Quenching Probe for Highly Sensitive Detection toward Mercury Ions
摘要： Sulfur and nitrogen co-doped graphene quantum dots (SN-GQDs) were synthesized through an efficient infrared (IR)-assisted pyrolysis of glucose, urea, and ammonia sulfate at 260°C. These served as a highly selective probe for the sensing of Hg2+ ions in an aqueous solution. The IR technique can also prepare N-doped graphene quantum dots (N-GQDs), which have been compared with SN-GQDs for their fluorescence (FL) quenching sensitivities by Hg2+ ions. The FL intensities of both GQDs show decreasing functions of concentration of Hg2+ ions within the entire concentration ranges of 10 ppb?10 ppm. The sensitivity of SN-GQD is 4.23 times higher than that of N-GQD, based on the calculation of the Stern-Volmer equation. One inter-band gap structure of SN-GQDs for the detection of mercury ions is proposed. The S doping can coordinate with phenolic groups on the edge of SN-GQDs (i.e., the formation of (CxO)2Hg2+) and induce the cutting off or alleviation of photon injection paths, thereby leading to significant FL quenching. This work proves that SN-GQD offers sufficient sensitivity for probing the quality of drinking water to ensure that it contains less than 10 ppb of Hg2+ ions, as per the World Health Organization standard.
关键词： Fluorescence quenching,Nitrogen doping,Infrared-assisted heating,Graphene quantum dots,Sulfur doping,Mercury detection
更新于2025-11-19 16:56:42
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Harnessing designer biotemplates for biomineralization of TiO2 with tunable photocatalytic activity
摘要： Biomineralization is a promising material synthesis strategy for environmentally benign production of nanostructured metal oxides. An important question is whether biomineralization can be used in the biomimetic synthesis of TiO2 with tunable photocatalytic properties that are conducive to diverse solar energy conversion applications. Here, we report the biomineralization of energy-state-modified TiO2 nanoparticles, where the critical properties closely related to their photocatalytic activity can be manipulated by tailoring the nature of the designer biotemplates. For this purpose, STB1 heptapeptide was employed as a nucleation center to induce TiO2 biomineralization. Three distinctive types of biomolecules (peptide, protein, and phage) were deliberately designed to contain the STB1 nucleation core at different local densities and intermolecular distances. The degree of substitutional nitrogen-doping and the morphology are all subject to the context-dependent differential availability of STB1 in the biomineralization milieu. Phage-induced biomineralization results in TiO2 with modified energy state and wire-like network morphology, which account for significantly enhanced charge dissociation/transport performance and high photocatalytic activity. This is the first study to report that a specific peptide with biomineralizing activity exerts differential impacts on the properties of resulting biomineralization products in a context-dependent manner, and will provide a powerful new strategy for tailoring of material properties via biomineralization.
关键词： Biomineralization,Titanium dioxide,Photocatalyst,in situ substitutional nitrogen-doping,Designer biotemplate
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Direct patterned growth of intrinsic/doped vertical graphene nanosheets on stainless steel via heating solid precursor films for field emission application
摘要： Vertical graphene nanosheets (VGNs), normally consisting of one to several graphene layers vertically aligned on substrates, are promising in a variety of applications including field electron emitters, gas sensors and energy storage devices. Herein, we report a simple, green, easily scalable and cost-effective strategy of growing both intrinsic and nitrogen (N)-doped VGNs on stainless steel (SS) just by heating the solid thin layers of glucose and/or urea in a resistance-heating furnace. It is interesting that VGNs mainly grow on the roughened regions, which can be attributed to the more nucleation and catalyzing sites on such regions than smooth SS. Meanwhile, the N doping concentration can be adjusted by varying the urea addition. Field electron emission measurement indicates that the obtained N-doped VGNs exhibit excellent field emission with a relatively low turn-on electric field strength (~2.6 V μm?1 at the current density of 10 μA cm?2), large field enhancement factor (~9428) and high stability.
关键词： Green synthesis,Nitrogen doping,Vertical graphene nanosheets,Field electron emission,Direct patterned growth
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Chemical bonds in nitrogen-doped amorphous InGaZnO thin film transistors
摘要： We investigated the chemical bonds in nitrogen-doped amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO:N) thin films with an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS). The doped nitrogen atoms preferentially combined with Ga cations and formed stable Ga-N bonds for low nitrogen-doping (N-doping), but additionally formed less stable In-N and Zn-N bonds for high N-doping. The stable Ga-N bonds and few defects made the variation in oxygen vacancy (VO) more difficult and hence achieved better stability of thin film transistors (TFTs) with low doped a-IGZO:N channel layers. Contrarily, the less stable In-N and Zn-N bonds as well as excess defects led to an easier change in VO and thus more unstable a-IGZO:N TFTs for high N-doping.
关键词： Amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO),Thin film transistors (TFTs),Nitrogen doping (N-doping),Chemical bonds
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Doping-induced giant rectification and negative differential conductance (NDC) behaviors in zigzag graphene nano-ribbon junction
摘要： By p-type and n-type doping on the electrode edges of V-notched zigzag graphene nano-ribbons (ZGNRs), four V-notched ZGNR-based PN-junctions are designed theoretically. The electronic transport properties of the doped and un-doped V-notched ZGNRs are studied applying non-equilibrium Green’s function method combined with the density functional theory. The numerical results show that, the doped systems are less conductive than the un-doped system, because after doping the transition states become localized. To our surprise, the ZGNR-based PN-junctions do not show obvious rectification by purely doping the boron atoms and nitrogen atoms on the edges of two ZGNR electrodes respectively. However, after hydrogenated the doped boron atoms and nitrogen atoms, the ZGNR systems present giant rectifications with the maximum rectification ratios up to 106 ～ 107, which attributed to the vanishing of overlap between left-electrode sub-band and right-electrode sub-band in the negative bias regime after the doped boron and nitrogen atoms being hydrogenated. Due to the same reason, the hydrogenated doping systems also show large negative differential conductance behaviors.
关键词： Giant rectification,Negative differential conductance,Graphene nano-ribbon junction,Boron and nitrogen doping
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Improvement of Power Conversion Efficiency of Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells by Doping of Manganese into a ZnS Passivation Layer and Cosensitization of Zinc-Porphyrin on a Modified Graphene Oxide/Nitrogen-Doped TiO <sub/>2</sub> Photoanode
摘要： It is vital to acquire power conversion efficiencies comparable to other emerging solar cell technologies by making quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) competitive. In this study, the effect of graphene oxide (GO), nitrogen, manganese, and a porphyrin compound on the performance of QDSSCs based on a TiO2/CdS/ZnS photoanode was investigated. First, adding GO and nitrogen into TiO2 has a conspicuous impact on the cell efficacy. Both these materials reduce the recombination rate and expand the specific surface area of TiO2 as well as dye loading, reinforcing cell efficiency value. The maximum power conversion efficiency of QDSSC with a GO N-doped photoelectrode was 2.52%. Second, by employing Mn2+ (5 and 10 wt %) doping of ZnS, we have succeeded in considerably improving cell performance (from 2.52 to 3.47%). The reason for this could be for the improvement of the passivation layer of ZnS by Mn2+ ions, bringing about to a smaller recombination of photoinjected electrons with either oxidized dye molecules or electrolyte at the surface of titanium dioxide. However, doping of 15 wt % Mn2+ had an opposite effect and somewhat declined the cell performance. Finally, a Zn-porphyrin dye was added to the CdS/ZnS by a cosensitization method, widening the light absorption range to the NIR (near-infrared region) (>700 nm), leading to the higher short-circuit current density (JSC) and cell efficacy. Utilizing an environmentally safe porphyrin compound into the structure of QDSSC has dramatically enhanced the cell efficacy to 4.62%, which is 40% higher than that of the result obtained from the TiO2/CdS/ZnS photoelectrode without porphyrin coating.
关键词： graphene oxide,nitrogen doping,manganese doping,quantum dot-sensitized solar cells,cosensitization,Zn-porphyrin,power conversion efficiency
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Nitrogen-Sulfur-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots with Metal Ion-Resistance for Bioimaging
摘要： The development of ultra-stable and highly fluorescent heteroatoms-doped graphene quantum dots (GQDs) for bioimaging remains a challenge due to the fluorescence quenching caused by binding between the heteroatoms-based functional groups of the GQDs and common metal ions in biological systems. Here, we developed a facile hydrothermal method to prepare nitrogen-sulfur doped GQDs (NS-GQDs). The fluorescence signals of the NS-GQDs are highly stable in the existence of different metal ions. Two natural products, aspartic acid and cysteine, were utilized as the carbon precursors and heteroatomic (nitrogen and sulfur) sources. The produced NS-GQDs showed a quantum yield up to 19.3 ± 1.7 % with a maximum emission of 480 nm under the excitation of 400 nm. The elemental analysis, including X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), were performed to characterize the composition and surface groups of NS-GQDs. Additionally, the NS-GQDs not only showed notable photostability, but also thermostability and chemical stability. Moreover, the NS-GQDs demonstrated very low cellular cytotoxicity in vitro. Finally, the NS-GQDs were applied for fluorescence imaging of cells, which also exhibited excellent fluorescent stability even with treatment of copper ions. The results indicated that the developed novel NS-GQDs have a promising potential to be used as ultra-stable fluorescent agent in the field of bioimaging and biosensing.
关键词： bioimaging,nitrogen doping,sulfur doping,fluorescence,Graphene quantum dots
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Controllable nitrogen doping and specific surface from freestanding TiO2@carbon nanofibers as anodes for lithium ion battery
摘要： Further modification of carbon and transition metal composites has become a hot spot in the preparation of anode materials for lithium ion battery, including various morphologies, nitrogen doping and porous introduction. However, the synergistic effect of specific surface area and nitrogen doping content of composite materials on the electrochemical performance as anode materials for lithium ion batteries has not been revealed. In this paper, the carbon nanofibers loaded with titanium dioxide are fabricated via electrospinning method followed by calcination process with simple addition admixture of diisopropyl azodiformate in precursor solution. The pores are introduced into the composite with controllable nitrogen doping and surface area simultaneously. The specific capacity of titanium dioxide @carbon nanofibers has been increased from 192.2 mAh g?1 to 336 mAh g?1 due to the increased nitrogen content of the composite from 7.18% to 10.21%, and elevated specific surface area from 67.23 to 111.15 m2 g?1, which can endow the composite superior conductivity and more active sites. The capacity contribution of the total specific capacity has decreased from 60.8% to 44.7% compared with original sample, proving that increasing diffusion controlled Faradaic Li-ion insertion origins from nitrogen doping.
关键词： Lithium battery,Porous carbon nanofibers,Nitrogen doping,Anode
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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High-performance counter electrode based on nitrogen-doped porous carbon nanoribbons for quantum dot-sensitized solar cells
摘要： Nitrogen-doped porous carbon nanoribbons (NPCNs) are facilely prepared by carbonization of polypyrrole (PPy) nanotubes followed by a chemical activation process. NPCN counter electrodes are subsequently fabricated by depositing NPCNs onto Ti mesh for quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSCs). Electrochemical tests are carried out to evaluate the electrocatalytic performance of obtained NPCN electrode. The data of electrochemical tests suggest that the NPCN electrode has a superior electrocatalytic ability towards polysulfide (S2?/Sn2?) electrolyte regeneration reaction and displays a high stability in polysulfide electrolyte. The excellent electrocatalytic performance of NPCN electrode can be ascribed to their large surface area, 2D porous nanoribbon morphology, abundant nitrogen atom doping, which provides electrocatalytic active sites and facilitates the electrolyte diffusion. Consequently, a power conversion efficiency of 3.27% is obtained by using NPCN electrode as the counter electrode for QDSC. This efficiency is close to the QDSC assembled with commonly used PbS electrode (4.0%).
关键词： nitrogen doping,porous carbon nanoribbons,quantum dots,counter electrode,solar cells
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Electrochemical transformation of black phosphorous to phosphorene quantum dots: effect of nitrogen doping
摘要： We present a comparative analysis of the structural and optical properties of electrosynthesized PQDs, a new class of size-tunable luminescent materials and their nitrogen doped counter parts(NPQDs). Nitrogen doping onto phopshorene lattice could be realized in situ at room temperature using either nitrogen containing electrolyte and/or supporting electrolyte in the solution. An increased quantum ef?ciency as well as redox behavior has been observed for PQDs upon nitrogen doping and a critical analysis of the effect of nitrogen on the structural, optical and electrochemical properties of PQDs suggests several potential bene?ts of applications ranging from electrocatalysts and molecular electronics to different types of sensors and bioimaging.
关键词： Nitrogen Doping,Phosphorene Quantum Dots,Black Phosphorus,Electrosynthesis
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52