A facile microwave-hydrothermal approach towards highly photoluminescent carbon dots from goose feathers

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4428-4433

  Liu, Ruili ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Gao, Mengping ^a   Li, Zhilian ^a   Chen, Jinyang ^a   Wu, Dongqing ^b   Liu, Ping ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

DOPED CARBONS; LARGE AMOUNTS; LOW DETECTION LIMIT; MICROWAVE HYDROTHERMAL; MICROWAVE-HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENT; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCY; SELECTIVE DETECTION; SULFUR ATOMS;

CARBON;

EID: 84919629964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra12077a     Document Type: Article

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