An easy approach of preparing strongly luminescent carbon dots and their polymer based composites for enhancing solar cell efficiency

Carbon

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 190-198

  Huang, Jia Jia ^a   Zhong, Zhen Feng ^a   Rong, Min Zhi ^a   Zhou, Xiang ^a   Chen, Xu Dong ^a   Zhang, Ming Qiu ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84895062392     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.12.092     Document Type: Article

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