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Xiaoyun Tan1, Yunchao Li, Xiaohong Li
1Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China. lzfan@bnu.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 9, 2015
Abstract:
We report water-soluble, 3 nm uniform-sized graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with red emission prepared by electrochemical exfoliation of graphite in K2S2O8 solution. Such GQDs show a great potential as biological labels for cellular imaging.
