I'm working on nanotechnology right now. I read many articles, some of them use dialysis during their synthesis process where as the others find that filtration and centrifuge of the product is sufficient to get fluorescent carbon dots. That make me confused. I would be appreciated if you answering my question.
Due to the small size of the carbon dots filtration and centrifugation not sufficient to purify carbon dots,,,,,,,,,,,,, In dialysis, we can purify molecules up to Dalton,,,,,,,
For carbon dots purification well stabilise methods are reported: i.e Dialysis, precipitation, centrifugation and filtration methods.
Understand your carbon dots synthesis matrix (reactant) and method, which you follow for synthesis. If you are get homogeneous particle size of carbon dots in your synthesis procedure, then you can used simple centrifugation method, if you got mixed size carbon dots then dialysis and filtration method ( with Millipore membrane with pore size 0.2 UM) works.
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