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American Chemical Society, ACS Nano, 9(6), p. 8060-8066, 2012

DOI: 10.1021/nn302644r

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Nonlinear Photoluminescence Imaging of Isotropic and Liquid Crystalline Dispersions of Graphene Oxide

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Abstract

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.