Facile synthesis and photoluminescence characteristics of blue-emitting nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots

Nanotechnology

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2016, Pages

  Gu, Jian ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaoping ^a   Pang, Aimin ^a   Yang, Jun ^b  

^a Hubei Institute of Aerospace Chemotechnology   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

amine groups; fluorescence quantum yield; Graphene quantum dots; photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHENE; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANOCRYSTALS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLUTIONS;

AMINE GROUPS; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; GRAPHENE LATTICES; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; HYDROTHERMAL PROCESS; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SYNTHESIS PARAMETERS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84961118239     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/16/165704     Document Type: Article

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