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 …

Fluorescent nanodots have become increasingly prevalent in a wide variety of applications
with special interest in analytical and biomedical fields. The present overview focuses on …

Carbon dots (CDs) have various attractive properties and potential applications, but there is
much less attention paid to their phosphorescent phenomenon and mechanism. Herein, we …

It is an emerging focus to develop a simple and straightforward strategy to synthesize
multifunctional nanomedicines for cancer imaging and treatment. In this work, a new carbon …

Photocatalytic hydrogen production from water splitting is of promising potential to resolve
the energy shortage and environmental concerns. During the past decade, carbon materials …

Counterfeiting of valuable documents, currency and branded products is a challenging
problem that has serious economic, security and health ramifications for governments …

Here, we report a novel, facile and green approach for the synthesis of highly fluorescent
carbon dots (CDs) with 28% quantum yield by utilizing onion waste as a precursor and by …

The recent discovery of biomass-derived carbon quantum dots (CQDs) offers the potential to
extend the sensing and imaging capabilities of quantum dots (QDs) to applications that …

Carbon dots, generally defined as small carbon nanoparticles with various surface
passivation schemes, have emerged as a new class of quantum-dot-like nanomaterials, with …