Ultrashort Carbon Nanotubes That Fluoresce Brightly In The Near

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Ultrashort Carbon Nanotubes That Fluoresce Brightly In The Near-Infrared Noémie Danne, Mijin Kim, Antoine G. Godin, Hejin Kwon, Zhenghong Gao, Xiaojian Wu, Nicolai F. Hartmann, Stephen K. Doorn, Brahim Lounis, YuHuang Wang, and Laurent Cognet ACS Nano, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02307 • Publication Date (Web): 11 Jun 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on June 11, 2018

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Ultrashort Carbon Nanotubes That Fluoresce Brightly In The Near-Infrared

Noémie Danné1,2, Mijin Kim3, Antoine G. Godin1,2, Hyejin Kwon3, Zhenghong Gao1,2, Xiaojian Wu3, Nicolai F. Hartmann4, Stephen K. Doorn4, Brahim Lounis1,2, YuHuang Wang3,5 and Laurent Cognet1,2,*

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Univ. Bordeaux, Laboratoire Photonique Numérique et Nanosciences, UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France 2 3

Institut d’Optique & CNRS, LP2N UMR 5298, F-33400 Talence, France

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States

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Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA 5

Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States

*[email protected].

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ABSTRACT The intrinsic near-infrared photoluminescence observed in long single-walled carbon nanotubes is known to be quenched in ultrashort nanotubes due to their tiny size as compared to the exciton diffusion length in these materials (>100 nm). Here we show that intense photoluminescence can be created in ultrashort nanotubes (~40 nm length) upon incorporation of exciton-trapping sp3-defect sites. Using super-resolution photoluminescence imaging at