Ambient Complexation Reaction of Zinc Acetate and Ascorbic acid Leads to a New Form of Nanoscale Particles with Emergent Optical Properties

26 August 2019, Version 1
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Abstract

We report room temperature complexation reaction mediated formation of luminescent nanoscale particles from an aqueous mixture of ascorbic acid and zinc acetate.

Keywords

ascorbic acid
zinc acetate
complexation reaction
nanoparticles
photoluminescence

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