Sustainable carbon-dots: recent advances in green carbon dots for sensing and bioimaging

V Sharma, P Tiwari, SM Mobin - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The past decade has witnessed the emergence of carbon dots (c-dots), outshining other
members of the carbon family because of their outstanding properties in fluorescence …

Prospects of sustainable and renewable source-based carbon quantum dots for food packaging applications

P Ezati, R Priyadarshi, JW Rhim - Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 2022 - Elsevier
CQDs are relatively new nanomaterials discovered accidentally during the purification
process of carbon nanotubes. Since then, several attempts have been made to synthesize …

Food waste as a carbon source in carbon quantum dots technology and their applications in food safety detection

H Fan, M Zhang, B Bhandari, C Yang - Trends in Food Science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background In recent years, carbon quantum dots (CQDs) has received a lot of attentions
owing to their great physical and optical properties. There are different kinds of carbon …

Green synthesis of multifunctional carbon dots from coriander leaves and their potential application as antioxidants, sensors and bioimaging agents

A Sachdev, P Gopinath - Analyst, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present study, a facile one-step hydrothermal treatment of coriander leaves for
preparing carbon dots (CDs) has been reported. Optical and structural properties of the CDs …

Green synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots for selective detection of tartrazine in food samples

H Xu, X Yang, G Li, C Zhao, X Liao - Journal of agricultural and …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A simple, economical, and green method for the preparation of water-soluble, high-
fluorescent carbon quantum dots (C-dots) has been developed via hydrothermal process …

Carbon dots enhanced gelatin/chitosan bio-nanocomposite packaging film for perishable foods

B Fu, Q Liu, M Liu, X Chen, H Lin, Z Zheng, J Zhu… - Chinese Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) with intriguing fluorescent property, good biocompatibility, high stability,
easy interaction with substrates, are burgeoning carbon nanoparticles with large potential in …

Carbon dots synthesized from microorganisms and food by-products: active and smart food packaging applications

M Moradi, R Molaei, SA Kousheh… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Nanotechnology is rapidly becoming a commercial reality for application in food packaging.
In particular, the incorporation of nanoparticles into packaging materials is being used to …

Green synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots from gynostemma for bioimaging and antioxidant in zebrafish

X Wei, L Li, J Liu, L Yu, H Li, F Cheng… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have been synthesized via the calcination method using
natural gynostemma as the precursor, without any toxic ingredients or surface passivation …

Facile and Green Synthesis of Multicolor Fluorescence Carbon Dots from Curcumin: In Vitro and in Vivo Bioimaging and Other Applications

T Pal, S Mohiyuddin, G Packirisamy - ACS omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
Early detection is the critical phase in the prognostic strategy of various life-threatening
maladies like infectious diseases and cancer. The mortality rate caused by these diseases …

Preparation of antimicrobial/ultraviolet protective bacterial nanocellulose film with carbon dots synthesized from lactic acid bacteria

SA Kousheh, M Moradi, H Tajik, R Molaei - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial biomass, as an environmentally friendly resource, has drawn a lot of attention as
green biomaterials for production of unique and functionalized carbon dots (CDs). However …