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Commercially activated carbon as the source for producing multicolor photoluminescent carbon dots by chemical oxidation

Zhen‐An Qiao, Yifan Wang, Yang Gao, Hongwei Li, Tianyi Dai, Yunling Liu, Qisheng Huo

Chemical Communications · 2010 · 667 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

Using commercially activated carbon, we developed a simple and effective direct chemical oxidation route to prepare good biocompatible multicolor photoluminescent carbon dots.

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