- Facile synthetic strategy for efficient and multi-color fluorescent BCNO nanocrystals.
Facile synthetic strategy for efficient and multi-color fluorescent BCNO nanocrystals.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2009-07-02)
Xiaofeng Liu, Song Ye, Yanbo Qiao, Guoping Dong, Qiang Zhang, Jianrong Qiu
PMID19568637
ABSTRACT
A facile strategy based on the reaction of urea and boric acid is developed for the synthesis of toxicity-free BCNO nanocrystals containing carbon impurities and which exhibit efficient multi-color fluorescence under both single-photon and two-photon excitation.