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Transient nature of graphene quantum dot formation via a hydrothermal reaction

Takashi Ogi, Hideharu Iwasaki, Kana Aishima, Ferry Iskandar, Wei‐Ning Wang, Kazuo Takimiya, Kikuo Okuyama

RSC Advances · 2014 · 121 citations · 28 references

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A facile, economic and environmentally friendly one-step approach for the preparation of highly luminescent graphene quantum dots (GQDs) was developed using a hydrothermal reaction between citric acid and urea.

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