Gram-scale synthesis of high-purity graphene quantum dots with multicolor photoluminescence

Fuchi Liu, Yuanyuan Sun, Yongping Zheng, Nujiang Tang, Ming Li, Wei Zhong, Youwei Du

RSC Advances · 2015 · 50 citations · 38 references

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Abstract

A gram-scale approach has been developed to prepare highly pure graphene quantum dots (GQDs) from Vulcan XC-72 carbon black refluxed with concentrated nitric acid using a home-built experimental system.

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