A multifunctional chemical toolbox to engineer carbon dots for biomedical and energy applications

L Ðorđević, F Arcudi, M Cacioppo, M Prato - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Photoluminescent carbon nanoparticles, or carbon dots, are an emerging class of materials
that has recently attracted considerable attention for biomedical and energy applications …

Recent advances in the design of afterglow materials: mechanisms, structural regulation strategies and applications

X Yang, GIN Waterhouse, S Lu, J Yu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Afterglow materials are attracting widespread attention owing to their distinctive and long-
lived optical emission properties which create exciting opportunities in various fields. Recent …

Supramolecular glasses with color-tunable circularly polarized afterglow through evaporation-induced self-assembly of chiral metal–organic complexes

F Nie, KZ Wang, D Yan - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The fabrication of chiral molecules into macroscopic systems has many valuable
applications, especially in the fields of optical displays, data encryption, information storage …

Carbon dots in bioimaging, biosensing and therapeutics: a comprehensive review

B Wang, H Cai, GIN Waterhouse, X Qu, B Yang… - Small …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs), comprising crystalline graphitized carbon cores and polymer surface
groups, are currently attracting a lot of interest in biological fields owing to their fluorescent …

Thermally Enhanced and Long Lifetime Red TADF Carbon Dots via Multi‐Confinement and Phosphorescence Assisted Energy Transfer

Q Lou, N Chen, J Zhu, K Liu, C Li, Y Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials, which can harvest both singlet
and triplet excitons for high‐efficiency emission, have attracted widespread concern for their …

Phosphorescence resonance energy transfer from purely organic supramolecular assembly

XY Dai, M Huo, Y Liu - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Phosphorescence energy transfer systems have been applied in encryption, biomedical
imaging and chemical sensing. These systems exhibit ultra-large Stokes shifts, high …

A molecular engineering strategy for achieving blue phosphorescent carbon dots with outstanding efficiency above 50%

Z Song, Y Shang, Q Lou, J Zhu, J Hu, W Xu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Highly efficient emission has been a long‐lasting pursuit for carbon dots (CDs) owing to their
enormous potential in optoelectronic applications. Nevertheless, their room‐temperature …

Evolution and fabrication of carbon dot-based room temperature phosphorescence materials

J Li, Y Wu, X Gong - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Traditional room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials usually include
organometallic composites and pure organic compounds, which generally possess the …

Noncovalent Polymerization‐Activated Ultrastrong Near‐Infrared Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence Energy Transfer Assembly in Aqueous Solution

XY Dai, M Huo, X Dong, YY Hu, Y Liu - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Noncovalent macrocycle‐confined supramolecular purely organic room‐temperature
phosphorescence (RTP) is a current research hotspot. Herein, a high‐efficiency noncovalent …

Recent advances of carbon dots with afterglow emission

H Shi, Y Wu, J Xu, H Shi, Z An - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) have gradually become a new generation of nano‐luminescent
materials, which have received extensive attention due to excellent optical properties, wide …