Coal as an abundant source of graphene quantum dots

By Ruquan Ye, Changsheng Xiang, Jian Lin, Zhiwei Peng, Kewei Huang, Zheng Yan, N. P. Cook, E. L. Samuel, Chih-Chau Hwang, G. Ruan and 4 more. Nature Communications, 2013

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• Graphene quantum dots from chemistry to applications (2018, methodology): “graphene in the acid environment, commonly used the mixture of H2SO4 and HNO3; (b) Representation scheme of the transformation of GQDs through oxidation cutting of carbon fibers (CF) [21]; (c) AFM image of GQDs by cutting CF [21]; (d) Schematic illustration of the synthesis of GQDs by using coal [24”
• Carbon Nanodots: A Review—From the Current Understanding of the Fundamental Photophysics to the Full Control of the Optical Response (2018, background): “Such an interpretation was endorsed by several works in the literature [62,166,169,171], and qualitatively agrees with the fact that carbonaceous nanoparticles only become “carbon dots”, i.”
• Biomass-waste derived graphene quantum dots and their applications (2018, background): “During the last several years, there has been a continuous eagerness to further convert carbonaceous materials into zero-dimensional (0D) GQDs [6, 53-55] and study their phenomenon of quantum confinement and edge effects [7, 56].”