Thickness-dependent full-color emission tunability in a flexible carbon dot ionogel

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1412-1420

  Wang, Yu ^a   Kalytchuk, Sergii ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a,b   Shi, Hengchong ^a,c   Kershaw, Stephen V ^a   Rogach, Andrey L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon dots; emission tunability; full color emission; ionic liquids; ionogels

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HYBRID MATERIALS; IONIC LIQUIDS; SILICA GEL; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CARBON DOTS; FULL COLOR; IONOGELS; LUMINESCENT MATERIAL; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; TUNABILITIES;

COLOR;

EID: 84899005726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz5005335     Document Type: Article

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