Microwave heating of arginine yields highly fluorescent nanoparticles

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Philippidis, Aggelos ^a   Stefanakis, Dimitrios ^b   Anglos, Demetrios ^a,b   Ghanotakis, Demetrios ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arginine; Carbon nanoparticles; Fluorescent nanoparticles; Folate cancer targeting; Microwave synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DISEASES; FLUORESCENCE; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AMINO ACID ARGININE; CANCER-TARGETING; CARBON NANO-PARTICLES; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLES; MICROWAVE SYNTHESIS; SINGLE PRECURSORS; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ARGININE; CARBON NANOPARTICLE; CITRIC ACID; ETHANOLAMINE; FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLE; FOLIC ACID; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; MICROWAVE COOKING; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84872086723     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-012-1414-3     Document Type: Article

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