%0 Journal Article %A Scharl, Tobías %A Ferrer Ruiz, Andrés %A Saura Sanmartin, Adrián %A Rodríguez Pérez, Laura %A Herranz, M. Ángeles %A Martín, Nazario %A Guldi, Dirk M. %T Charge transfer in graphene quantum dots coupled with tetrathiafulvalenes %D 2019 %@ 1359-7345 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13864 %X Water-soluble fluorescent graphene quantum dots have been successfully prepared through a top-down approach, that is, starting with graphite, and covalently functionalizing it with p-extended tetrathiafulvalene. Charge transfer investigations reveal noticeably slower charge recombination when compared with exTTF nanoconjugates featuring carbon nanodots, for which a larger presence of trap states is observed. %~