Carbon nanodots (CNDs) have been synthesized using low-cost and biocompatible starting materials such as citric acid/urea, under microwave irradiation and constant pressure conditions. The obtained pressure synthesized CNDs (pCND) were covalently modified with photo- and electro-active π-extended tetrathiafulvalene (exTTF) by means of a two-step esterification reaction affording pCND-exTTF. The electronic interactions between the CNDs and exTTF were investigated in the ground and excited stat...
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