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Dual-fluorescence
carbon dots have great potential as nanosensors
in life and materials sciences. Such carbon dots can be obtained via
a solvothermal synthesis route with glutathione and formamide. In
this work, we show that the dual-fluorescence emission of the synthesis
products does not originate from a single carbon dot emitter, but
rather from a mixture of physically separate compounds. We characterized
the synthesis products with UV–vis, Raman, infrared, and fluorescence
spectroscopy, and identified blue-emissive carbon dots and red-emissive
porphyrin. We demonstrate an easy way to separate the two compounds
without the need for time-consuming dialysis. Understanding the nature
of the system, we can now steer the synthesis toward the desired product,
which paves the way for a cheap and environmentally friendly synthesis
route toward carbon dots, water-soluble porphyrin, and mixed systems.
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