Carbon Dots: A Mystic Star in the World of Nanoscience

Figure 3

(a) Synthesis of CDs by a Mw irradiation method. (b) HR-TEM image of as-synthesized CDs as obtained from the Mw irradiation method: (i) 20 nm (size distribution histogram shown inset); (ii) 5 nm (magnification of a single nanoparticle shown inset) (reproduced with permission from [16]).

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