The synthetic strategies, photoluminescence mechanisms and promising applications of carbon dots: Current state and future perspective

C He, P Xu, X Zhang, W Long - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs), a rising star in carbon nanomaterials, have attracted enormous attention
since their discovery in 2004. Up to now, a large number of approaches have been …

Insights into photoluminescence mechanisms of carbon dots: advances and perspectives

L Ai, Y Yang, B Wang, J Chang, Z Tang, B Yang, S Lu - Science Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) are potentially useful in many areas such as bioimaging, light-emitting
diodes, and sensing because of their excellent optical properties, high biocompatibility, and …

Carbon dots: synthesis, formation mechanism, fluorescence origin and sensing applications

ML Liu, BB Chen, CM Li, CZ Huang - Green chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) have received an increasing amount of attention because of their
significant advantages in terms of low toxicity, chemical inertness, tunable fluorescence …

Precursor-dependent structural diversity in luminescent carbonized polymer dots (CPDs): the nomenclature

Q Zeng, T Feng, S Tao, S Zhu, B Yang - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Carbon dots (CDs) have received immense attention in the last decade because they are
easy-to-prepare, nontoxic, and tailorable carbon-based fluorescent nanomaterials. CDs can …

Disulfide Crosslinking‐Induced Aggregation: Towards Solid‐State Fluorescent Carbon Dots with Vastly Different Emission Colors

R Fu, H Song, X Liu, Y Zhang, G Xiao… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary Solid‐state fluorescent multi‐color carbon dots (SFM‐CDs),
prepared using the same precursor (s) without the need for dispersion in a solid matrix, are …

Aggregation and luminescence in carbonized polymer dots

C Kang, S Tao, F Yang, B Yang - Aggregate, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The aggregate luminescence behavior of organic luminescent materials has been studied
extensively. As a new kind of luminescent nanomaterials, carbonized polymer dots (CPDs) …

Tunable full-color solid-state fluorescent carbon dots for light emitting diodes

J Wang, J Zheng, Y Yang, X Liu, J Qiu, Y Tian - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) as a class of new fluorescent materials have attracted numerous
attention. However, the solid-state photoluminescence quenching of CDs is still a big …

Recent development of carbon quantum dots regarding their optical properties, photoluminescence mechanism, and core structure

KJ Mintz, Y Zhou, RM Leblanc - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon quantum dots (CDs) are a relatively new class of carbon nanomaterials which have
been studied very much in the last fifteen years to improve their already favorable properties …

Molecular fluorescence in citric acid-based carbon dots

J Schneider, CJ Reckmeier, Y Xiong… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen-doped carbon dots synthesized from citric acid as a carbon precursor have recently
been considered to contain fluorescent derivatives of citrazinic acid, which contribute to their …

Carbon dots: from synthesis to unraveling the fluorescence mechanism

M Alafeef, I Srivastava, T Aditya, D Pan - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) being a new type of carbon‐based nanomaterial have attracted intensive
interest from researchers owing to their excellent biophysical properties. CDs are a class of …