Harnessing Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots for Enhancing the Fluorescence and Conductivity of the Starch-Based Film

28 Pages Posted: 30 Aug 2022

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Chenxi Liu

South China University of Technology

Mengying Wen

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Shihua Mai

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Yue Ma

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Qingfei Duan

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Wei Zou

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Hongsheng Liu

South China University of Technology

Abstract

The flexible film is wildly applied in modern electronic industry, whilst it is still challenging to derive the carbohydrate-based materials multifunctional in conductivity and fluorescence. Starch as a renewable biopolymer is seldom studied as a substrate for preparing the flexible wearable device. In the study, a novel conductive, fluorescent and flexible polymer film was prepared via a cost-effective method by fabricating the nitrogen-doped oxide reduced graphene quantum dots (N-rGO-QDs) into the thermoplastic starch (TPS) based bio-polymer matrix. It is found that TPS/N-rGO-QDs film with 10 wt% N-rGO-QDs showed the desirable lowest resistivity (0.084 Ω·m), acceptable light transmittance (60-80%) and durable fluorescence intensity (9000 CPS). It suggests a novel carbohydrate-based multifunctional film with conductivity and fluorescence, which is hypothesized hopefully applied in some frontier domains, like monitoring human mobile activities.

Keywords: Starch-based film, N-rGO-QDs, Fluorescence, conductivity, Flexibility

Suggested Citation

Liu, Chenxi and Wen, Mengying and Mai, Shihua and Ma, Yue and Duan, Qingfei and Zou, Wei and Liu, Hongsheng, Harnessing Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots for Enhancing the Fluorescence and Conductivity of the Starch-Based Film. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4205035

Chenxi Liu

South China University of Technology ( email )

Wushan
Guangzhou, AR 510640
China

Mengying Wen

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Shihua Mai

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Yue Ma

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Qingfei Duan

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Wei Zou

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( email )

Hongsheng Liu (Contact Author)

South China University of Technology ( email )

Wushan
Guangzhou, AR 510640
China

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