Preparation of highly luminescent and color tunable carbon nanodots under visible light excitation for in vitro and in vivo bio-imaging

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 3386-3393

  Zheng, Min ^a,b   Liu, Shi ^c   Li, Jing ^c   Xie, Zhigang ^c   Qu, Dan ^b   Miao, Xiang ^b,d   Jing, Xiabin ^c   Sun, Zaicheng ^a,b   Fan, Hongyou ^e,f  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e MSC01 1070   (United States)

^f ADVANCED MATERIALS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

bio imaging; carbon nanodots; citric acid; color tuneable; ethylene diamines; luminescence

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CITRIC ACID; ETHYLENE; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOBLEACHING; TOXICITY;

BIO-IMAGING; CARBON NANODOTS; CHEMICAL INERTNESS; ETHYLENE DIAMINE; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; TETRAETHYLENEPENTAMINE; TRIETHYLENETETRAMINE; VISIBLE LIGHT EXCITATION;

NANODOTS;

EID: 84959476032     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2015.323     Document Type: Article

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