Highly Photoluminescent Carbon Dots Derived from Egg White: Facile and Green Synthesis, Photoluminescence Properties, and Multiple Applications

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1412-1418

  Zhang, Zehui ^a   Sun, Wenhui ^a   Wu, Peiyi ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell imaging; Hydrothermal carbonization; Ions detecting; Multi stimuli responsive nanocomposites; Nitrogen doped fluorescent carbon nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOHAZARDS; CARBONIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; METAL IONS; METALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PH EFFECTS; PHOTOBLEACHING; QUANTUM YIELD;

CELL IMAGING; FLUORESCENT CARBON NANOPARTICLES; HYDROTHERMAL CARBONIZATION; MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTO-LUMINESCENT PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; STIMULI-RESPONSIVE; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84936797787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00156     Document Type: Article

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