PH-Dependent Synthesis of Novel Structure-Controllable Polymer-Carbon NanoDots with High Acidophilic Luminescence and Super Carbon Dots Assembly for White Light-Emitting Diodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 4062-4068

  Lu, Siyu ^a,d   Cong, Ridong ^f   Zhu, Shoujun ^a,e   Zhao, Xiaohuan ^a   Liu, Junjun ^a   S tse, John ^b,d   Meng, Sheng ^c   Yang, Bai ^a  

^a Jilin University   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon core state; carbon dots; fluorophore; molecular state; structure controllable

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; CARBON FILMS; CROSSLINKING; ENERGY GAP; FLUOROPHORES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; POLYMERS;

AMORPHOUS CARBON STRUCTURES; CARBON DOTS; MOLECULAR STATE; PH-DEPENDENT SOLUBILITIES; RECOMBINATION CHANNELS; SUPRAMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

AMORPHOUS CARBON;

EID: 84958969253     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11579     Document Type: Article

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