Carbon dots represent an emerging class of fluorescent materials and provide a broad
application potential in various fields of biomedicine and optoelectronics. In this review, we …

2. INTRODUCTION The investigation of many fundamental processes in life sciences
requires straightforward tools for fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of …

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs, C-dots or CDs), which are generally small carbon
nanoparticles (less than 10 nm in size) with various unique properties, have found wide use …

Clinical applications of current photodynamic therapy (PDT) agents are often limited by their
low singlet oxygen (1O2) quantum yields, as well as by photobleaching and poor …

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have various alluring properties and potential applications,
but their large-scale applications are limited by current synthetic methods that commonly …

Two types of carbon dots (C dots) exhibiting respective excitation-independent blue
emission and excitation-dependent full-color emissions have been synthesized via a mild …

Nanoparticles are promising scaffolds for applications such as imaging, chemical sensors
and biosensors, diagnostics, drug delivery, catalysis, energy, photonics, medicine, and …

Carbon quantum dots modified P25 TiO2 composites (CQDs/P25) with a “dyade”-like
structure were prepared via a facile one-step hydrothermal reaction. CQDs/P25 exhibited …

In this paper, we have presented a novel strategy to fabricate fluorescent boronic acid
modified carbon dots (C-dots) for nonenzymatic blood glucose sensing applications. The …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201400111 fluorescent probes with size lower than 8 nm could enter
into nucleus, which also strongly depend on the surface environments of the probes.[11, 12] …