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  • 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
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.

MATERIALS
Product Number
Brand
Product Description

Sigma-Aldrich
Boric anhydride, puriss. p.a., ≥98% (T)
Sigma-Aldrich
Boric anhydride, granulated, ≥98.0% (T)
Supelco
Boric anhydride, 99.98% trace metals basis
Sigma-Aldrich
Boric anhydride, 99.999% trace metals basis