Carbon Dots: From Intense Absorption in Visible Range to Excitation-Independent and Excitation-Dependent Photoluminescence

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 922-929

  Zhao, Yongqiang ^a   Liu, Xuguang ^a   Yang, Yongzhen ^a   Kang, Litao ^a   Yang, Zhi ^a   Liu, Weifeng ^a   Chen, Lin ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon dots; hydrothermal synthesis; optical properties; ultraviolet irradiation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE DEFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON DOTS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; HYDROTHERMALLY SYNTHESIZED; SURFACE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATIONS; UV-VIS ABSORPTION BANDS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84963864971     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1536383X.2015.1018413     Document Type: Article

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