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In this paper photoluminescence properties of aqueous suspensions of carbon nanoparticles (nanodiamonds, carbon dots and complexes on their basis) with different ratio of surface carbon in sp3- and sp2-hybridizations were studied by methods of Raman, fluorescence and IR absorption spectroscopy. It was found that intensity of photoluminescence correlates with amount of carbon in non-diamond phase on the surface of nanoparticles. Nanoparticles with high non-diamond carbon phase content revealed more intense photoluminescence. The obtained results support the hypothesis about surface nature of photoluminescence of nanodiamonds and carbon dots.
Keywords: Carbon nanoparticles, photoluminescence, carbon hybridization, spectroscopy© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.