Carbon dots serve as an effective probe for the quantitative determination and for intracellular imaging of mercury(II)

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1611-1618

  Yan, Fanyong ^a   Kong, Depeng ^a   Luo, Yunmei ^b   Ye, Qianghua ^a   He, Juanjuan ^a   Guo, Xingfei ^a   Chen, Li ^a  

^a TIANJIN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZUNYI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FTIR; Quantum yield; Quenching; Transmission electron microscopy; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959370740     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-016-1788-5     Document Type: Article

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