Highly luminescent N, S- Co-doped carbon dots and their direct use as mercury(II) sensor

Analytica Chimica Acta

Volumn 890, Issue , 2015, Pages 134-142

  Wang, Yu ^a,b   Kim, Sung Hoon ^b   Feng, Liang ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carbon dots; Cyanide; Hydrosulfide; Mercury; Multi sensing

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION REACTIONS; CYANIDES; IONS; LUMINESCENCE; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEGATIVE IONS; NITROGEN; SULFUR;

CARBON DOTS; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; HYDROSULFIDE; MICROWAVE-ASSISTED METHODS; MULTI-SENSING; SELECTIVE DETERMINATION; SENSING MECHANISM; SENSING PLATFORMS;

FLUORESCENCE;

ACIDRUBEANIC; BUFFER; CARBON DOT; CARBON NANOPARTICLE; CITRIC ACID; COORDINATION COMPOUND; CYANIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MERCURY; NITROGEN; OLIGOMER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METAL BINDING; NANOANALYSIS; NANOFABRICATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; TEST STRIP; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84940793747     PISSN: 00032670     EISSN: 18734324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2015.07.051     Document Type: Article

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