Quantum dots (QDs) have been the core concept of nanoscience and nanotechnology since
their inception, and play a dominant role in the development of the nano-field. Carbon dots …

Carbon dots (CDs) have significant potential for use in various fields including biomedicine,
bioimaging, and optoelectronics. However, inefficient excitation and emission of CDs in both …

Recent studies indicate that carbon dots (CDs) can efficiently generate singlet oxygen (1O2)
for photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer. However, the hypoxic tumor microenvironment …

Inorganic nanoparticles with tunable and diverse properties hold tremendous potential in the
field of nanomedicine, while having non‐negligible toxicity concerns in healthy …

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have attracted intensive interest in the scientific community
attributed to their quantum effect, non-toxicity, fluorescence, photoluminescence, and up …

Efficient capture of solar energy will be critical to meeting the energy needs of the future.
Semiconductor photocatalysis is expected to make an important contribution in this regard …

In recent years, the emerging fluorescent carbon dots have shown enormous potentials for
biomedical and optoelectronic applications owing to their outstanding characteristics such …

Carbon dots (CDs) are novel zero-dimensional carbonaceous nanomaterial, and they are
featured with an attractive combination of physical, chemical, and biomedical properties …

The unique ability of carbon atoms to participate in robust covalent bonds with other carbon
atoms in diverse hybridization states (sp, sp 2, sp 3) or with nonmetallic elements enables …

Abstract Photoluminescence (PL), up‐conversion PL (UCPL), and phosphorescence are
three kinds of phenomena common to light‐emitting materials, but it is very difficult to …