Chemical Cleavage of Layered Carbon Nitride with Enhanced Photoluminescent Performances and Photoconduction

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 12480-12487

  Zhou, Zhixin ^a   Shen, Yanfei ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Liu, Anran ^a   Liu, Songqin ^a   Zhang, Yuanjian ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nitride; photoconduction; photoluminescence; quantum dots; sensors

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NITRIDES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SENSORS; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

EMISSION WAVELENGTH; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; LAYERED PRECURSORS; NITRIDE NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOCONDUCTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MECHANISM; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS;

CARBON NITRIDE;

EID: 84952332756     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05924     Document Type: Article

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