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 Pub Date : 10/18/2010 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C0CC02724C
Abstract
Using commercially activated carbon, we developed a simple and effective direct chemical oxidation route to prepare good biocompatible multicolor photoluminescent carbon dots.