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

Graphene and its derivatives have unique physical and chemical properties that make them
promising vehicles for photothermal therapy (PTT)-based cancer treatment. With intrinsic …

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 …

In this work, water soluble carbon quantum dots (wsCQDs) were synthesized from lemon
peel waste using a facile and cost effective hydrothermal process. As synthesized wsCQDs …

Luminescent nanomaterials, with wide applications in biosensing, bioimaging, illumination
and display techniques, have been consistently garnering enormous research attention. In …

A novel one-step ionic liquid induced strategy has been reported for the controlled synthesis
of carbon quantum dots (CQDs)/BiOX (X= Br, Cl) hybrid nanosheets with tunable CQDs …

Recent years have seen the rocket rise of graphene as the unique two-dimensional carbon
nanosheets and its outstanding promise in materials science. In particular, because of its …

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

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 …

Photoluminescent nanosized allotropes of carbon have attracted considerable interest
because of their diverse optical properties depending on their crystal structure, size, and …