Hydrothermal conversion of one-photon-fluorescent poly(4-vinylpyridine) into two-photon-fluorescent carbon nanodots

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 11746-11752

  Lawrence, Katherine ^a   Xia, Fengjie ^a,b   Arrowsmith, Rory L ^a   Ge, Haobo ^a   Nelson, Geoffrey W ^c   Foord, John S ^c   Felipe Sotelo, Mónica ^d   Evans, Nick D M ^d   Mitchels, John M ^a   Flower, Stephen E ^a   Botchway, Stanley W ^e   Wolverson, Daniel ^f   Aliev, Gazi N ^f   James, Tony D ^a   Pascu, Sofia I ^a   Marken, Frank ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANODOTS; HYDROTHERMAL CONVERSION; POLY(4-VINYL PYRIDINE);

CARBON; FLUORESCENT DYE; NANOPARTICLE; POLY(4-VINYLPYRIDINE); POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHOTON; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBON; FLUORESCENT DYES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONS; POLYVINYLS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84906821943     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la404866s     Document Type: Article

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