Emerging applications of biochar-based materials for energy storage and conversion

WJ Liu, H Jiang, HQ Yu - Energy & environmental science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Global warming, environmental pollution, and an energy shortage in the current fossil fuel
society may cause a severe ecological crisis. Storage and conversion of renewable …

Biomass‐derived carbon dots and their applications

W Meng, X Bai, B Wang, Z Liu, S Lu… - Energy & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) have received much attention due to their superior properties including
water solubility, low toxicity, biocompatibility, small size, fluorescence, and ease of …

The fluorescence mechanism of carbon dots, and methods for tuning their emission color: a review

F Yan, Z Sun, H Zhang, X Sun, Y Jiang, Z Bai - Microchimica Acta, 2019 - Springer
Carbon dots (CDs) display tunable photoluminescence and excitation-wavelength
dependent emission. The color of fluorescence is affected by electronic bandgap transitions …

Carbon dots for in vivo bioimaging and theranostics

J Du, N Xu, J Fan, W Sun, X Peng - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs), a kind of carbon material discovered accidentally, exhibit unexpected
advantages in fluorescence imaging/sensing such as photostability, biocompatibility, and …

Near-infrared emissive carbon dots with 33.96% emission in aqueous solution for cellular sensing and light-emitting diodes

B Wang, J Li, Z Tang, B Yang, S Lu - Science Bulletin, 2019 - Elsevier
Near-infrared emissive carbon dots (CDs) were synthesized by hydrothermal method. The
as-prepared CDs exhibited a relatively high quantum yield (QY) of 33.96% in an aqueous …

Recent advances in synthesis, optical properties, and biomedical applications of carbon dots

S Anwar, H Ding, M Xu, X Hu, Z Li, J Wang… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots (CDs) are relatively new and one of the most propitious nanomaterials ever
known to humanity, primarily consisting of a carbonized carbon core with heteroatoms in …

Biomass-derived carbon quantum dots for visible-light-induced photocatalysis and label-free detection of Fe (III) and ascorbic acid

GS Das, JP Shim, A Bhatnagar, KM Tripathi, TY Kim - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Visible-light-driven photocatalysts prepared using renewable resources are crucial but
challenging to develop for the efficient degradation of organic pollutants, which is required to …

Future perspectives and review on organic carbon dots in electronic applications

M Semeniuk, Z Yi, V Poursorkhabi, J Tjong, S Jaffer… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Over the span of the past decade, carbon dots (CDs) synthesized from renewable organic
resources (organic CDs) have gathered a considerable amount of attention for their …

Design, synthesis, and functionalization strategies of tailored carbon nanodots

F Arcudi, L Đorđević, M Prato - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over the past decades, considerable efforts have been devoted to synthesizing
nanostructured materials with specific properties that ultimately shape their function. In the …

sp2–sp3-Hybridized Atomic Domains Determine Optical Features of Carbon Dots

NV Tepliakov, EV Kundelev, PD Khavlyuk, Y Xiong… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots (CDots) are a promising biocompatible nanoscale source of light, yet the origin
of their emission remains under debate. Here, we show that all the distinctive optical …