Reversible Photoswitching of Carbon Dots

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Khan, Syamantak ^a   Verma, Navneet Chandra ^a   Gupta, Abhishek ^a   Nandi, Chayan Kanti ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MANDI   (India)

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EID: 84935891411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11423     Document Type: Article

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