Color-switchable, emission-enhanced fluorescence realized by engineering C-dot@C-dot nanoparticles

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 20700-20708

  Guo, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhou, Lianqun ^a   Li, Haiwen ^a   Wang, Hongmei ^a   Andreazza Vignolle, Caroline ^b   Andreazza, Pascal ^b   Zhao, Dongxu ^c   Wu, Yihui ^c   Wang, Quanlong ^c   Zhang, Tao ^a   Jiang, Keming ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

color switching; conjugating nanoparticles; emission enhancement; fluorescent carbon nanodots

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BLUE SHIFT; CARBON; NANODOTS; NANOPARTICLES; RED SHIFT;

CARBON NANODOTS; COLOR SWITCHING; EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE; ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; EXTENDED CONJUGATION; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; HYDROTHERMAL DECOMPOSITION;

FLUORESCENCE;

CARBON; CITRIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; COLOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT;

CARBON; CITRIC ACID; COLOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84917705563     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5071078     Document Type: Article

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