One-Pot Gram-Scale Synthesis of Nitrogen and Sulfur Embedded Organic Dots with Distinctive Fluorescence Behaviors in Free and Aggregated States

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4367-4374

  Zhang, Jia ^a   Yang, Li ^a   Yuan, Yue ^a   Jiang, Jun ^a   Yu, Shu Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CARBON; EXCITED STATES; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NITROGEN; SOLUTIONS; SULFUR;

DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FIRST-PRINCIPLES SIMULATIONS; FLUORESCENCE BEHAVIORS; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; GRAM-SCALE SYNTHESIS; HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR FLUOROPHORES;

FLUOROPHORES;

EID: 84976562462     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b01360     Document Type: Article

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