Development of hydrophilicity gradient ultracentrifugation method for photoluminescence investigation of separated non-sedimental carbon dots

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2810-2821

  Deng, Li ^a   Wang, Xiaolei ^a   Kuang, Yun ^a   Wang, Cheng ^a   Luo, Liang ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Sun, Xiaoming ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon dots; de clustering; hydrophilicity gradient; mechanism; nanoseparation; photoluminescence; pre aggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941732385     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0786-y     Document Type: Article

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