Tailoring color emissions from N-doped graphene quantum dots for bioimaging applications

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Qu, Dan ^a,b   Zheng, Min ^a   Li, Jing ^c   Xie, Zhigang ^c   Sun, Zaicheng ^a,d  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

excitation wavelength independent; graphene quantum dots; nitrogen doped; pure color emission

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COLOR; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHENE; NANOCRYSTALS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BIO-IMAGING; BLUE-GREEN LIGHT; COLOR EMISSION; DIETHYLENETRIAMINE; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH INDEPENDENT; INORGANIC QUANTUM DOTS; N-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPED; PURE COLOR EMISSION;

DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE;

EID: 85114740711     PISSN: 20955545     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/LSA.2015.137     Document Type: Article

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