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 …

Carbon dots: synthesis, formation mechanism, fluorescence origin and sensing applications

ML Liu, BB Chen, CM Li, CZ Huang - Green chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) have received an increasing amount of attention because of their
significant advantages in terms of low toxicity, chemical inertness, tunable fluorescence …

Biomass‐derived carbon dots and their applications

W Meng, X Bai, B Wang, Z Liu, S Lu… - Energy & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) have received much attention due to their superior properties including
water solubility, low toxicity, biocompatibility, small size, fluorescence, and ease of …

Carbon dots: from synthesis to unraveling the fluorescence mechanism

M Alafeef, I Srivastava, T Aditya, D Pan - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) being a new type of carbon‐based nanomaterial have attracted intensive
interest from researchers owing to their excellent biophysical properties. CDs are a class of …

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 …

Mushroom-derived carbon dots for toxic metal ion detection and as antibacterial and anticancer agents

T Boobalan, M Sethupathi… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Although carbon nanoparticles or quantum dots (C-dots) have been studied extensively for a
variety of applications (eg, photocatalysis, metal ion sensing, antibacterial, cell labeling), a …

Green synthesis of carbon dots from Ocimum sanctum for effective fluorescent sensing of Pb2+ ions and live cell imaging

A Kumar, AR Chowdhuri, D Laha, TK Mahto… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2017 - Elsevier
A simple, rapid and cost-effective approach is developed to synthesize fluorescent carbon
dots (CDs) using the leaves of Ocimum sanctum as a carbon source for the first time. The as …

Fluorescence “Turn OFF-ON” detection of Fe3+ and propiconazole pesticide using blue emissive carbon dots from lemon peel

FY Vadia, S Ghosh, VN Mehta, S Jha, NI Malek… - Food chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, water-soluble carbon dots (CDs) were employed as a novel fluorescence “turn
OFF-ON” sensor to detect Fe 3+ ions in pharmaceutical sample and propiconazole (PC) in …

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 …