Carbon Nanodots: Supramolecular Electron Donor-Acceptor Hybrids Featuring Perylenediimides

We describe the formation of charge‐transfer complexes that feature electron‐donating carbon nanodots (CND) and electron‐accepting perylenediimides (PDI). The functionalities of PDIs have been selected to complement those of CNDs in terms of electrostatic and π‐stacking interactions based on oppositely charged ionic head groups and extended π‐systems, respectively. Importantly, the contributions from electrostatic interactions were confirmed in...