The light of carbon dots: From mechanism to applications

B Wang, S Lu - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Photoluminescence (PL) nanomaterials are widely used by scientists because of their
important applications in optoelectronic devices and biomedicine, such as use in organic …

Afterglow of carbon dots: mechanism, strategy and applications

K Jiang, Y Wang, Z Li, H Lin - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
As a newly emerged carbon-based luminescent nanomaterial, carbon dots (CDs) have
attracted considerable attention due to their outstanding features. Their photoluminescence …

Recent advances of carbon dots with afterglow emission

H Shi, Y Wu, J Xu, H Shi, Z An - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) have gradually become a new generation of nano‐luminescent
materials, which have received extensive attention due to excellent optical properties, wide …

The afterglow of carbon dots shining in inorganic matrices

X He, Y Zheng, C Hu, B Lei, X Zhang, Y Liu… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) are a new type of quasi-spherical and zero-dimension carbon
nanomaterial with a diameter less than 10 nm, which exhibit a broad absorption spanning …

The room temperature afterglow mechanism in carbon dots: current state and further guidance perspective

Y Sun, X Zhang, J Zhuang, H Zhang, C Hu, M Zheng… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, researchers are no longer satisfied with the investigation of the fluorescence
properties of carbon dots (CDs), but instead focus on the more attractive afterglow …

Insights into photoluminescence mechanisms of carbon dots: advances and perspectives

L Ai, Y Yang, B Wang, J Chang, Z Tang, B Yang, S Lu - Science Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) are potentially useful in many areas such as bioimaging, light-emitting
diodes, and sensing because of their excellent optical properties, high biocompatibility, and …

Environment-dependent photon emission from solid state carbon dots and its mechanism

Y Deng, X Chen, F Wang, X Zhang, D Zhao, D Shen - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have received great research interest in recent years, with
applications in areas such as bio-imaging and chemical sensing. However, solid state …

Optical properties of carbon dots: a review

M Liu - Nanoarchitectonics, 2020 - ojs.wiserpub.com
Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have attracted increasing attention in recent years owing to
their most significant advantages in terms of low toxicity, resistance to photobleaching, small …

Origins of efficient multiemission luminescence in carbon dots

P Zhu, K Tan, Q Chen, J Xiong, L Gao - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
Although several groups have synthesized dual-emission carbon dots (D-CDs) and paid
more attention to their emission centers in recent years, the luminescence mechanism of D …

[HTML][HTML] Surface states of carbon dots and their influences on luminescence

H Ding, XH Li, XB Chen, JS Wei, XB Li… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Luminescent carbon dots (CDs) have received increasing attention from many fields during
the past decade. Unfortunately, the luminescent mechanisms of CDs remain unclear due to …