Carbon dots doped with nitrogen and sulfur and loaded with copper(II) as a “turn-on” fluorescent probe for cystein, glutathione and homocysteine

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1409-1416

  Guo, Ying ^a   Yang, Lianli ^a   Li, Wuwu ^a   Wang, Xiaofang ^a   Shang, Yonghui ^a   Li, Baoxin ^b  

^a XIANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fluorescence recovery; Imaging; Luminescence; Quantum yield; Quenching; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957966983     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-016-1779-6     Document Type: Article

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