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Fluorescent vesicles formed by simple surfactants induced by oppositely-charged carbon quantum dots
Xiaofeng Sun1, Qinghong Zhang2, Keyang Yin2
1State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication & Laboratory of Clean Energy Chemistry and Materials, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730000, China. hgli@licp.cas.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
Abstract:
We show for the first time that stable fluorescent vesicles can be constructed by mixing oppositely-charged carbon quantum dots (CQDs) and simple surfactants in water, and can be potentially used as a new generation of biomarkers and drug delivery vehicles.

