We report the experimental evidence for the formation of multi-quantum dots in a hydrogenated single-layer graphene flake. The existence of multi-quantum dots is supported by the low-temperature measurements on a field effect transistor structure device. The resulting Coulomb blockade diamonds shown in the color scale plot together with the number of Coulomb peaks exhibit the characteristics of...

This work presents a novel fluorescent sensor for the determination of tacrine by combining the magnificent fluorescence properties of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots (N-GQDs) with the high potential of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme for screening its inhibitors. Tacrine was the first drug approved for Alzheimer's disease and it is currently being used in several therapeutic treatments...

The electronic and adsorption properties of graphene can be changed significantly through substitutional doping with nitrogen and nitrogen decoration of vacancies. Here ab initio density functional theory with a dispersion correction was used to investigate the stability, magnetic and adsorption properties of nine defects in graphene, including both nitrogen substitutional doping and nitrogen d...

Doping of heteroatoms such as nitrogen into the lattice structure of graphene can tune and tailor the overall electronic properties. N-doped graphene, depending on the nitrogen bonding mode and/or bonding configuration, displays subtly altered properties in comparison to pristine graphene. However, there remains a disappointing shortage of reliable methods for introducing dopants in a controlle...

Based on first principles density functional theory calculations we explored energetics of oxygen reduction reaction over pristine and nitrogen-doped graphene with different amounts of nitrogen doping. The process of oxygen reduction requires one more step than the same reaction catalyzed by metals. Results of calculations evidence that for the case of light doped graphene (about 4% of nitrogen...

In article number 2004867, Yiqin Shi, Guqiao Ding and co-workers demonstrate the superior sonosensitization effect of N-doped graphene quantum dots, which is believed to be 3–5 times higher than that traditional sonosensitizers. More importantly, pyrrole N pyridine are form catalytic centers in sonochemical processing dots. This knowledge important from perspective understanding structure-depen...

Large-area substitutional phosphorus-nitrogen co-doped monolayer graphene is directly synthesized on a Cu surface by chemical vapor deposition using molecules of phosphonitrilic chloride trimer as the phosphorus and nitrogen sources. The doping levels of both phosphorus and nitrogen atoms decrease as a function of the growth temperature. In contrast, the doping effect is enhanced with temperatu...