High-yield fabrication of Ti3C2Tx MXene quantum dots and their electrochemiluminescence behavior

Yunlong Qin; Zeqian Wang; Naiyun Liu; Yue Sun; Dongxue Han; Yang Liu; Li Niu; Zhenhui Kang

doi:10.1039/c8nr03903h

High-yield fabrication of Ti₃C₂T_x MXene quantum dots and their electrochemiluminescence behavior

Nanoscale. 2018 Aug 7;10(29):14000-14004. doi: 10.1039/c8nr03903h. Epub 2018 Jul 11.

Authors

Yunlong Qin¹, Zeqian Wang¹, Naiyun Liu², Yue Sun², Dongxue Han³, Yang Liu², Li Niu³, Zhenhui Kang²

Affiliations

¹ Engineering Laboratory for Modern Analytical Techniques, c/o State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, PR China. dxhan@ciac.ac.cn and University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, P. R. China.
² Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, PR China. yangl@suda.edu.cn zhkang@suda.edu.cn.
³ Engineering Laboratory for Modern Analytical Techniques, c/o State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, PR China. dxhan@ciac.ac.cn and Center for Advanced Analytical Science, c/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, P.R. China.

PMID: 29995053
DOI: 10.1039/c8nr03903h

Abstract

Ti₃C₂T_x MXene Quantum Dots (MQDs) were obtained with high yield (60%) from two-dimensional MXene via a facile reflux strategy. These green luminescent MQDs possess indisputable and stable annihilation electrochemiluminescence (ECL) and coreactant (TPrA) enhanced (∼29-fold) anode ECL.