The emerging development of multicolor carbon dots

J Li, X Gong - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As a relatively new type of fluorescent carbon‐based nanomaterials, multicolor carbon dots
(MCDs) have attracted much attention because of their excellent biocompatibility, tunable …

Evolution and synthesis of carbon dots: from carbon dots to carbonized polymer dots

C Xia, S Zhu, T Feng, M Yang, B Yang - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the various synthesis methods to obtain carbon dots (CDs), the bottom‐up methods
are still the most widely administrated route to afford large‐scale and low‐cost synthesis …

Hetero-atom-doped carbon dots: Doping strategies, properties and applications

S Miao, K Liang, J Zhu, B Yang, D Zhao, B Kong - Nano Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDots), an emerging class of photoluminescent materials, exhibit excellent
optical, electrical and chemical properties with many potential applications. Hetero-atom …

The formation process and mechanism of carbon dots prepared from aromatic compounds as precursors: a review

S Xue, P Li, L Sun, L An, D Qu, X Wang, Z Sun - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

A universal strategy for activating the multicolor room‐temperature afterglow of carbon dots in a boric acid matrix

W Li, W Zhou, Z Zhou, H Zhang, X Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted attention in metal‐free afterglow materials, but most CDs
were heteroatom‐containing and the afterglow emissions are still limited to the short …

Room-temperature phosphorescent fluorine-nitrogen co-doped carbon dots: Information encryption and anti-counterfeiting

F Liu, Z Li, Y Li, Y Feng, W Feng - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
The spin-forbidden nature of triplet exciton transitions is a limitation for achieving a carbon
dots-based material with room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP). Here, fluorine-nitrogen …

A review: recent advances in preparations and applications of heteroatom-doped carbon quantum dots

X Kou, S Jiang, SJ Park, LY Meng - Dalton Transactions, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are widely used in optoelectronic catalysis, biological
imaging, and ion probes owing to their low toxicity, stable photoluminescence, and ease of …

The formation mechanism and fluorophores of carbon dots synthesized via a bottom-up route

D Qu, Z Sun - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) with incomparable optical properties have attracted extensive attention.
However, some unclear issues remain, which has impeded the basic understanding and …

Enhanced biological photosynthetic efficiency using light‐harvesting engineering with dual‐emissive carbon dots

W Li, S Wu, H Zhang, X Zhang, J Zhuang… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancing solar energy conversion is imperative and maximizing solar energy capture
remains significant. Here, nanotechnology toward engineering hybrid photosystem involving …

Design of a synthetic strategy to achieve enhanced fluorescent carbon dots with sulfur and nitrogen codoping and its multifunctional applications

M Wu, J Li, Y Wu, X Gong, M Wu - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Here, a rational strategy to achieve multifunctional N, S codoped carbon dots (N, S‐CDs) is
reported, aiming to improve the photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs) of the CDs …