Probing Energy and Electron Transfer Mechanisms in Fluorescence Quenching of Biomass Carbon Quantum Dots

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 27, 2016, Pages 17478-17488

  Liang, Zicheng ^a   Kang, Mijeong ^b   Payne, Gregory F ^b   Wang, Xiaohui ^a   Sun, Runcang ^a,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon quantum dot; chitosan; fluorescence quenching; F rster resonance energy transfer; spectroelectrochemistry

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMASS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY;

DONOR-ACCEPTOR DISTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSFER MECHANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; HYDROTHERMAL PROCESSING; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SPECTROELECTROCHEMICAL STUDY;

QUENCHING;

EID: 84978435486     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b04826     Document Type: Article

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