Silver-doped antimicrobial fluorescent carbon dots: Dual properties of metal ion detection and antibacterial
- Corresponding author: Manying ZHANG, myzhang@jsut.edu.cn
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Jiaxin LU, Yifu QIAO, Xing QIANG, Yong GAO, Ziya LIU, Manying ZHANG. Silver-doped antimicrobial fluorescent carbon dots: Dual properties of metal ion detection and antibacterial[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry,
;2026, 42(2): 398-412.
doi:
10.11862/CJIC.20250207
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