Yanyan Wu, Yiling Zhong, Binbin Chu, Bin Sun, Bin Song, Sicong Wu, Yuanyuan Su and Yao He
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 7047-7050
DOI:
10.1039/C6CC02872A,
Communication
By using gramineae plants as natural and accessible reaction precursors, we herein introduce a green synthetic strategy, which is efficacious for the facile production of crystalline, excitation-wavelength-dependent fluorescent and small-sized silicon nanoparticles (SiNPs). We further explore the prepared SiNPs as a novel kind of fluorescent label for anti-counterfeiting applications.