Facile synthesis of fluorescent graphene quantum dots from coffee grounds for bioimaging and sensing

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 300, Issue , 2016, Pages 75-82

  Wang, Liang ^a   Li, Weitao ^a   Wu, Bin ^b   Li, Zhen ^a   Wang, Shilong ^b   Liu, Yuan ^a   Pan, Dengyu ^a   Wu, Minghong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioimaging; Functionalization; Graphene quantum dots; Sensing

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHENE; HEAVY METALS; NANOCRYSTALS;

BIO-IMAGING; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FACILE SYNTHESIS; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE; HYDRAZINE HYDRATE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; SENSING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84964899454     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.04.123     Document Type: Article

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