Synthesis of strongly fluorescent graphene quantum dots by cage-opening buckminsterfullerene

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2548-2555

  Chua, Chun Kiang ^a   Sofer, Zdeněk ^b   Šimek, Petr ^b   Jankovský, Ondřej ^b   Klímová, Kateřina ^b   Bakardjieva, Snejana ^c   Hrdličková Kučková, Štěpánka ^b   Pumera, Martin ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

fullerenes; graphene; luminescence; oxidation; quantum dots

Indexed keywords

AMINES; BLUE SHIFT; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FULLERENES; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE OF INORGANIC SOLIDS; NANOCRYSTALS; OXIDATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; BUCKMINSTERFULLERENES; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FRAGMENTATION PROCESS; LUMINESCENCE ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; RED AND BLUE SHIFTS; STRONG LUMINESCENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84925666785     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505639q     Document Type: Article

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