Graphene quantum dots derived from carbon fibers

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 844-849

  Peng, Juan ^a,b   Gao, Wei ^a   Gupta, Bipin Kumar ^a,c   Liu, Zheng ^a   Romero Aburto, Rebeca ^a,d   Ge, Liehui ^a   Song, Li ^e   Alemany, Lawrence B ^a   Zhan, Xiaobo ^a   Gao, Guanhui ^a,f   Vithayathil, Sajna Antony ^g   Kaipparettu, Benny Abraham ^g   Marti, Angel A ^a   Hayashi, Takuya ^e   Zhu, Jun Jie ^b   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^g BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon fibers; Graphene quantum dots; imaging; luminescence; zigzag edge

Indexed keywords

ACID TREATMENTS; ATOMIC LAYER; BIO-IMAGING; BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; BROKEN DOWN; CHEMICAL BREAKDOWN; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH WATER; LOW TOXICITY; MULTI-STEP; NANOMETER SIZE; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PLANAR STRUCTURE; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SIZE RANGES; SUBMICROMETERS; ZIGZAG EDGES;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CARBON FIBERS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

GRAPHENE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBON; CARBON FIBER; GRAPHITE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARBON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856952508     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2038979     Document Type: Article

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