Highly bright carbon quantum dots for flexible anti-counterfeiting
Shihuan Ren, Bingxu Liu, Maorong Wang, Guangting Han, Haiguang Zhao, Yuanming Zhang
Abstract
Carbon quantum dots (C-dots) were synthesized via a vacuum heating approach, which could provide over 100 g per batch with an ultrahigh quantum yield of ∼79%. The as-prepared C-dots was used as a security ink for textile anti-counterfeiting.
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