• 文献标题:   Nonlinear Photoluminescence Imaging of Isotropic and Liquid Crystalline Dispersions of Graphene Oxide
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SENYUK B, BEHABTU N, PACHECO BG, LEE T, CERIOTTI G, TOUR JM, PASQUALI M, SMALYUKH II
  • 作者关键词:   graphene oxide, selfassembly, liquid crystal, multiphoton excitation, photoluminescence, nonlinear imaging
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rice Univ
  • 被引频次:   31
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn302644r
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We report a visible-range nonlinear photoluminescence (PL) from graphene oxide (GO) flakes excited by near-infrared femtosecond laser light. PL intensity has nonlinear dependence on the laser power, implying a multiphoton excitation process, and also strongly depends on a linear polarization orientation of excitation light, being at maximum when it is parallel to flakes. We show that PL can be used for a fully three-dimensional label-free imaging of isotropic, nematic, and lamellar liquid crystalline dispersions of GO flakes in water. This nonlinear PL is of interest for applications in direct label-free imaging of composite materials and study of orientational ordering in mesomorphic phases formed by these flakes, as well as in biomedical and sensing applications utilizing GO.