The environment is important for human survival, but because of everyday human activities,
many pollutants in the drinking water, food and environment may increasingly contribute to …

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 …

Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) are a new class of carbon nanomaterials and have
demonstrated excellent optical properties, good biocompatibility, great aqueous solubility …

The detection of explosives is one of the current pressing concerns in global security. In the
past few decades, a large number of emissive sensing materials have been developed for …

Carbon dots (CDs) are relatively new and one of the most propitious nanomaterials ever
known to humanity, primarily consisting of a carbonized carbon core with heteroatoms in …

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and carbon dots (CDs) are among the latest research
frontiers in carbon-based nanomaterials. They provide interesting attributes to current …

As a new “zero-dimensional” carbon nanomaterial, carbon dots (CDs) have a wide range of
applications in the fields of biology, chemistry, food science, and energy, which are ascribed …

Heteroatom-doped carbon dots (CDs), due to their excellent photoluminescence (PL)
properties, attracted widespread attention recently and demonstrated immense promise for …

As an important member of fluorescence nanoparticles, carbon dots (CDs) not only possess
exceptional chemical properties, including excellent biocompatibility, low toxicity and …

Carbon dots, a recent member of the renowned carbon-based nanomaterials family, have
attracted significant interest from various fields. The extraordinary properties, including …