In the areas of bioimaging and detection, biosensors have attracted extensive attention
recently. Specifically, biosensors based on nanostructures provide a more sensitive …

Carbon dots (CDots), an emerging class of photoluminescent materials, exhibit excellent
optical, electrical and chemical properties with many potential applications. Hetero-atom …

The emergence of carbon dots (CDs) has opened up an exciting new field in the science
and technology of carbon nanomaterials and has attracted increasing interest in recent …

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a new class of fluorescence small carbon nanoparticles
with a particle size of less than 10 nm and have vast applications in the field of bioimaging …

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) as a rising star of carbon nanomaterials, by virtue of their
unique physicochemical, optical and electronic properties, have displayed tremendous …

Carbon dots are a new class of carbon materials with ultrasmall size and unique
physicochemical property. They have been widely studied since their discovery and have …

The unique ability of carbon atoms to participate in robust covalent bonds with other carbon
atoms in diverse hybridization states (sp, sp 2, sp 3) or with nonmetallic elements enables …

Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles or carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a new class of carbon
nanomaterials that have emerged recently and have garnered much interest as potential …

Carbon dots (C-dots) are a kind of fluorescent nanoparticles that are strongly fluorescent,
non-blinking, and can be easily synthesized at low cost. Their emission color can be tuned …

Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles also termed as carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have
attracted so much interest when compared to the traditional semiconductor quantum dots …