Detection of heavy metal ions has drawn significant attention in environmental and food
area due to their threats to the human health and ecosystem. Colorimetry is one of the most …

Core-shell structured sulfur composite nanoparticles (NPs) and their various derivatives
have been widely investigated as a promising cathode material for Li-S batteries (LSBs) …

Water pollution caused by hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)] ions has attracted increasing
attention because Cr (VI) ions are highly toxic and carcinogenic, which may cause serious …

About 70 million tons of sulfur are produced yearly as a by-product of petroleum refining,
and 10 millions are overproduced and accumulated, thus requiring advanced recycling …

The direct utilization of abundant and cheap elemental sulfur (S) to synthesize sulfur
quantum dots (SQDs) with satisfactory yield and photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) …

About one billion tons of food is wasted annually due to microbial contamination and
oxidative deterioration. Actually, this issue is solved by hazardous and costly functional …

Nanozymes have been widely utilized in colorimetric sensors and developing nanomaterials
with multienzyme functions have more application prospects due to their cascaded catalytic …

Over the past few decades, the sphere of applied science has witnessed soaring demand in
developing high performance, novel and sustainable materials due to ever-increasing …

In recent years, there are ever-increasing scientific researches about zero-dimensional (0D)
sulfur nanomaterials, focusing on sulfur nanoparticles, sulfur quantum dots and various …

Tools to detect low molecular weight mycotoxin patulin (PAT) are urgently needed because
of its harm to human health. Here, we report a simple, effective, and sensitive fluorescent …