Carbon dots prepared from citric acid and urea as fluorescent probes for hypochlorite and peroxynitrite

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1769-1777

  Simões, Eliana F C ^a   Leitão, João M M ^a   da Silva, Joaquim C G Esteves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Carbon dots; Fluorescence; Microwave synthesis; Quenching; Reactive nitrogen species; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960465818     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-016-1807-6     Document Type: Article

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