Origin of Excitation Dependent Fluorescence in Carbon Nanodots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 3695-3702

  Sharma, Arjun ^a   Gadly, Trilochan ^a   Gupta, Alka ^a   Ballal, Anand ^a   Ghosh, Sunil Kumar ^a   Kumbhakar, Manoj ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STATES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SOLVENTS;

CARBON NANODOTS; DILUTE SOLUTION; EMISSIVE STATE; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; INHOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; SOLVENT RELAXATION; SPECTRAL SHIFT;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84987810006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01791     Document Type: Article

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