Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted rapidly growing interest in recent years due to their unique
and tunable optical properties, the low cost of fabrication, and their widespread uses …

One important resource for material synthesis is waste. Utilization of waste as a resource for
material synthesis is an environmentally responsible approach that reduces the need for …

Cost-efficient nanoparticle carbocatalysts composed of fluorescent carbon dots (CDs)
embedded in carbon matrix were synthesized via one-step acid-assisted hydrothermal …

Carbon materials have played very important roles in our society. Due to their complexity
and inhomogeneity, however, our understandings of these materials have seriously lagged …

A simple and low-cost pyrolytic carbonization method has been performed for the easy
synthesis of carbon quantum dots from soya-nuggets under an insufficient amount of …

New hybrid nanodots comprised of carbon nanodots and ruthenium nanodots have been
synthesized from peptide functionalized carbon nanodots and a ruthenium salt. At first …

Lyotropic liquid-crystalline (LLC) materials are important in designing porous materials, and
acids are as important in chemical synthesis. Combining these two important concepts will …

The electron recombination lifetime in a sensitized semiconductor assembly is greatly
influenced by the crystal structure and geometric form of the light-harvesting semiconductor …

Globalization and climate change have driven the need to develop new technologies which
can provide clean, plentiful energy from renewable sources. This work was focused on the …

The colors of solar cells are very important when adopting them for future indoor and
outdoor light energy harvesting devices with smart designs. Here we report the formation of …