Supercritical Fluid Facilitated Disintegration of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheets to Quantum Dots and Its Application in Cells Imaging

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 29, 2016, Pages 18647-18651

  Thangasamy, Pitchai ^a,b   Santhanam, Manikandan ^a   Sathish, Marappan ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

Author keywords

bacterial cells; BN QDs; few layer; fragmentation; supercritical fluid

Indexed keywords

CELL IMMOBILIZATION; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; IN SITU PROCESSING; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

BACTERIAL CELLS; BN QDS; FEW LAYER; FRAGMENTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIAL CELLS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIAL CELLS; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID PROCESSING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BORON DERIVATIVE; BORON NITRIDE; COLORING AGENT; QUANTUM DOT;

LUMINESCENCE;

BORON COMPOUNDS; COLORING AGENTS; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84979743432     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b04614     Document Type: Article

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