Controllable size-selective method to prepare graphene quantum dots from graphene oxide

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Fan, Tianju ^a   Zeng, Wenjin ^a   Tang, Wei ^a   Yuan, Chunqiu ^a   Tong, Songzhao ^a   Cai, Kaiyu ^a   Liu, Yidong ^b   Huang, Wei ^a,b   Min, Yong ^a,c   Epstein, Arthur J ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays and Fountain Global Photoelectric Technology Co Ltd   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical cutting; Fluorescence mechanism; Graphene oxide; Graphene quantum dots

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; MANUFACTURE; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONTROLLABLE SIZE; DIFFERENT SIZES; FLUORESCENCE WAVELENGTH; LOW COSTS; ONE-STEP METHODS; PRODUCTION YIELD;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84924205274     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0783-9     Document Type: Article

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