Microwave-assisted one-step synthesis of water-soluble manganese-carbon nanodot clusters.

ABSTRACT: Using metal coordination to assemble carbon nanodots (CND) into clusters can enhance their photophysical properties for applications in sensing and biomedicine. Water-soluble clusters of CNDs are prepared by one-step microwave synthesis starting from ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, ethylenediamine and MnCl₂·4H₂O as precursors. Transmission electron microscopy and powder X-Ray diffraction techniques indicate that the resulting clusters form spherical particles of 150 nm constituted by amorphous CNDs joined together with Mn ions in a laminar crystalline structure. The nanomaterial assemblies show remarkable fluorescence quantum yields (0.17-0.20) and magnetic resonance imaging capability (r₁ = 2.3-3.8 mM^-1.s^-1). In addition, they can be

SUBMITTER: Gomez-Blanco N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10447561 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature