Luminescent Polymer Composite Films Containing Coal-Derived Graphene Quantum Dots

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 47, 2015, Pages 26063-26068

  Kovalchuk, Anton ^a   Huang, Kewei ^a   Xiang, Changsheng ^a   Martí, Angel A ^a,b,c   Tour, James M ^a,b,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fluorescent polymer composites; graphene quantum dots; light emitting diodes; luminescent polymer composites; nanocomposites; poly(vinyl alcohol)

Indexed keywords

CASTING; COAL; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHENE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLUTIONS;

FLUORESCENT POLYMERS; FLUORESCENT PROPERTY; LUMINESCENT POLYMER; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL) (PVA); SOLID-STATE FLUORESCENCE;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84948762687     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06057     Document Type: Article

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