The development of carbon dots: From the perspective of materials chemistry

S Li, L Li, H Tu, H Zhang, DS Silvester, CE Banks… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The advance of materials chemistry has influenced significantly the lifestyle of mankind. By
virtue of their fascinating physicochemical nature–including ultrasmall size (< 10 nm), rich …

Recent advancements of solid-state emissive carbon dots: a review

W Xu, F Zeng, Q Han, Z Peng - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Solid-state emissive (SSE) carbon dots (C-dots) have attracted significant attention in last
decade due to their ability to enhance the physicochemical, photoluminescent properties …

Microwave-assisted synthesis of carbon dots and their applications

TV de Medeiros, J Manioudakis, F Noun… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots, an emerging class within the carbon allotrope family, have gained significant
attention largely due to their versatile and tunable physico-chemical and optical properties …

Nano-remediation of toxic heavy metal contamination: Hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)]

NA Azeez, SS Dash, SN Gummadi, VS Deepa - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The inexorable industrialization and modern agricultural practices to meet the needs of the
increasing population have polluted the environment with toxic heavy metals such as Cr (VI) …

A critical review on the environmental applications of carbon dots

A Hebbar, R Selvaraj, R Vinayagam… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The discovery of zero-dimensional carbonaceous nanostructures called carbon dots (CDs)
and their unique properties associated with fluorescence, quantum confinement and size …

Advances in the methods for the synthesis of carbon dots and their emerging applications

A Khayal, V Dawane, MA Amin, V Tirth, VK Yadav… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cutting-edge technologies are making inroads into new areas and this remarkable progress
has been successfully influenced by the tiny level engineering of carbon dots technology …

Carbon nanodots: a review—from the current understanding of the fundamental photophysics to the full control of the optical response

A Sciortino, A Cannizzo, F Messina - C, 2018 - mdpi.com
Carbon dots (CDs) are an emerging family of nanosystems displaying a range of fascinating
properties. Broadly speaking, they can be described as small, surface-functionalized …

Carbon-based quantum particles: an electroanalytical and biomedical perspective

K Nekoueian, M Amiri, M Sillanpää, F Marken… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon-based quantum particles, especially spherical carbon quantum dots (CQDs) and
nanosheets like graphene quantum dots (GQDs), are an emerging class of quantum dots …

Carbon quantum dots: A promising nanocarrier for bioimaging and drug delivery in cancer

P Jana, A Dev - Materials Today Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, carbon quantum dots have emerged as a promising nanomaterial for
simultaneous bioimaging and drug delivery in cancer due to their excellent properties like …

Functional carbon dots derived from biomass and plastic wastes

T Kuang, M Jin, X Lu, T Liu, H Vahabi, Z Gu… - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) have emerged as a promising class of zero-dimensional (0D) carbon
nanomaterials due to their outstanding photoluminescence and electrical properties, along …