Gram-Scale Synthesis of Graphene Quantum Dots from Single Carbon Atoms Growth via Energetic Material Deflagration

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4319-4327

  Liu, Yousong ^a,b   Gao, Bing ^a   Qiao, Zhiqiang ^a   Hu, Yingjie ^c   Zheng, Wenfang ^c   Zhang, Long ^a   Zhou, Yong ^d   Ji, Guangbin ^b   Yang, Guangcheng ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMBUSTION; GRAPHENE; MOBILE SECURITY; NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

CARBON NANOSPHERE; CARRIER MEDIUM; CELLULAR IMAGING; ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; GRAM-SCALE SYNTHESIS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE (PTFE); SINGLE-CARBON ATOMS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84934888448     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00774     Document Type: Article

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