Nitrogen-Doping Enhanced Fluorescent Carbon Dots: Green Synthesis and Their Applications for Bioimaging and Label-Free Detection of Au3+ Ions

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3053-3061

  Liao, Jie ^a   Cheng, Zehong ^a   Zhou, Li ^a  

^a GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioimaging; Fluorescence; Nitrogen doped carbon dots; Selectivity; Sensing of Au3+ ions

Indexed keywords

CARBONIZATION; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IONIC STRENGTH; IONS; NITROGEN; QUENCHING;

BIO-IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; HYDROTHERMAL CARBONIZATION; IONIC STRENGTH VARIATION; LABEL-FREE DETECTION; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; SELECTIVE FLUORESCENCE; WATER SOLUBLE NITROGENS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84973548662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b00018     Document Type: Article

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