C8-structured carbon quantum dots: Synthesis, blue and green double luminescence, and origins of surface defects

Carbon

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 165-173

  Chen, Xifang ^a   Zhang, Wenxia ^a   Wang, Qianjin ^b   Fan, Jiyang ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBONIZATION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; NANODIAMONDS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BODY-CENTERED CUBIC; CARBON QUANTUM DOTS; DOUBLE LUMINESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; GREEN EMISSIONS; NANOSCALE CARBON; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; UV-VIS ABSORPTIONS;

SURFACE DEFECTS;

EID: 84920569015     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.07.056     Document Type: Article

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