Carbon dots (CDs), a rising star in carbon nanomaterials, have attracted enormous attention
since their discovery in 2004. Up to now, a large number of approaches have been …

Carbon dots (CDs) have received an increasing amount of attention because of their
significant advantages in terms of low toxicity, chemical inertness, tunable fluorescence …

Conventional π-conjugated luminophores suffer from problems such as emission
quenching, biotoxicity, environmental pollution, etc. The emerging nonconjugated and …

Carbon and graphene quantum dots are prepared using top-down and bottom-up methods.
Sustainable synthesis of quantum dots has several advantages such as the use of low-cost …

Fluorescent carbon dots are a novel type of nanomaterial. Due to their excellent optical
properties, they have extensive application prospects in many fields. Studying the formation …

Carbon dots (CDs) display tunable photoluminescence and excitation-wavelength
dependent emission. The color of fluorescence is affected by electronic bandgap transitions …

Carbon dots (CDs) have tremendous potential applications in bioimaging, biomedicine, and
optoelectronics. By far, it is still difficult to produce photoluminescence (PL) tunable CDs with …

Ratiometric fluorescence (FL) probes can eliminate the background interference and
provide more accurate detection results than single emission intensity-based nanoprobes …

As an important member of fluorescence nanoparticles, carbon dots (CDs) not only possess
exceptional chemical properties, including excellent biocompatibility, low toxicity and …

Carbon dots (CDs), novel luminescent zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterials, have been
widely applied due to their low toxicity, optimal optical properties, and easy modification …