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Photon Energy Up-conversion in Carbon Nanotubes

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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are quasi-one-dimensional nanostructures in which graphene is rolled up in a cylindrical shape. Recently, it has been discovered that SWNTs with defect-induced localized states exhibit an interesting and potentially useful anti-Stokes light-emission phenomenon called up-conversion photoluminescence (UCPL) in the near-infrared wavelength range; SWNTs can efficiently emit the luminescence of a wavelength shorter than the wavelength of the excitation light. Furthermore, recent studies have revealed that the UCPL of SWNTs is enabled by the absorption of ambient thermal energy as the source of the photon energy up-conversion . The discovery of efficient UCPL of SWNTs may lead to new applications, such as UCPL imaging of blood vessels and organs in the deep inside of a living animal’s body with negligible autofluorescence using low-cost near-infrared wavelength excitation light source and conventional silicon-based detectors.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP24681031, JP15H05408, JP15K13337, JP16H00911, JP17K19055, by JST PRESTO, by JST CREST (JPMJCR16F3), by the Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology, and by the Nakatani Foundation.

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Miyauchi, Y. (2019). Photon Energy Up-conversion in Carbon Nanotubes. In: Nakashima, N. (eds) Nanocarbons for Energy Conversion: Supramolecular Approaches. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92917-0_21

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