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 nanodots (CNDs) are the latest and most shining rising stars among
photoluminescent (PL) nanomaterials. These carbon-based surface-passivated …

Carbon dots (CDs) as the advancing fluorescent carbon nanomaterial have superior
potential and prospective. However, the ambiguous photoluminescence (PL) mechanism …

Fluorescent carbon dots are a novel type of nanomaterial. Due to their excellent optical
properties, they have extensive application prospects in many fields. Studying the formation …

Carbon dots (CDs) have excellent luminescence characteristics, such as good light stability,
high quantum yield (QY), long phosphorescence lifetime, and a wide emission wavelength …

Luminescent carbon dots (CDs) have received increasing attention from many fields during
the past decade. Unfortunately, the luminescent mechanisms of CDs remain unclear due to …

It is important to reveal the luminescence mechanisms of carbon dots (CDs). Herein, CDs
with two types of optical centers are synthesized from citric acid in formamide by a …

As a promising luminescent nanomaterial, carbon dots (CDs) have received tremendous
attention for their great potential in biomedical applications, owing to their distinctive merits …

Carbon dots (CDs), novel luminescent zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterials, have been
widely applied due to their low toxicity, optimal optical properties, and easy modification …

Fluorescence regulation of carbon dots (CDs) during their preparation has become a hot
research topic. In this work, multicolor fluorescent CDs with unconventional luminescence …