Successful entrapment of carbon dots within flexible free-standing transparent mesoporous organic-inorganic silica hybrid films for photonic applications

Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids

Volumn 103, Issue , 2017, Pages 190-196

  Vassilakopoulou, Anastasia ^a   Georgakilas, Vasilios ^a   Vainos, Nikolaos ^a   Koutselas, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbon dots; Flexible films; Mesoporous; Soft lithography; Transparent films

Indexed keywords

CARBON FILMS; LITHOGRAPHY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMER FILMS; SILICA; SOL-GELS; SOLUTIONS;

CARBON DOTS; FLEXIBLE FILMS; MESOPOROUS; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; TRANSPARENT FILMS;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 85008343600     PISSN: 00223697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2016.12.027     Document Type: Article

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