Femtosecond laser-assisted synthesis of highly photoluminescent carbon nanodots for Fe3+ detection with high sensitivity and selectivity

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 312-320

  Nguyen, Vanthan ^a,b   Yan, Lihe ^a   Si, Jinhai ^a   Hou, Xun ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LE QUY DON TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; LASER ABLATION; SURFACE DEFECTS;

CARBON NANODOTS; GRAPHITE POWDER; HIGH SENSITIVITY; NANO-SENSOR PROBE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; RAW MATERIAL CONCENTRATION; SELECTIVE DETECTION; SURFACE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84957582635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.6.000312     Document Type: Article

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