Bandgap engineering of coal-derived graphene quantum dots

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7041-7048

  Ye, Ruquan ^a   Peng, Zhiwei ^a   Metzger, Andrew ^a   Lin, Jian ^b,c,d   Mann, Jason A ^a   Huang, Kewei ^a   Xiang, Changsheng ^a   Fan, Xiujun ^b,c,e   Samuel, Errol L G ^a   Alemany, Lawrence B ^a,c   Martí, Angel A ^a,b,c   Tour, James M ^a,b,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Missouri   (United States)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

anthracite; bandgap; cross flow filtration; graphene quantum dots; photoluminescent

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACITE; COAL INDUSTRY; ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; NANOCRYSTALS; SCALABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; CROSS FLOW FILTRATION; CROSS-FLOW ULTRAFILTRATION; ORANGE-RED; OXIDATIVE TREATMENT; PHOTOLUMINESCENT; SCALABLE METHODS; TWO WAYS;

GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84926319265     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01419     Document Type: Article

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