As an excellent fluorescent nanomaterial, carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have the properties
of small molecular weight, small particle size, high fluorescence stability, no optical flicker …

Severe disease and environmental pollution derived from heavy metal ions has become one
of the major problems in global public health. In particular, mercury (II) as one type of highly …

Herein, we summarize recent research developments and progress of carbon dots (CDs),
which have been attracting considerable attention as a new type of photoluminescent …

Biomass is a renewable hydrocarbon resource utilized to generate bioenergy, green
chemicals, and carbon materials. Biomass is also promising source material for advanced …

Nano-materials are important in many diverse areas, from basic research to various
applications in electronics, biochemical sensors, catalysis and energy. They have emerged …

Although fire is now rarely used in synthetic chemistry, it was not until Robert Bunsen
invented the burner in 1855 that the energy from this heat source could be applied to a …

Rapid progress in the field of ionic liquids in recent decades led to the development of many
outstanding energy‐conversion processes, catalytic systems, synthetic procedures, and …

Nitrogen-containing compounds, such as amines, enamines, and imines, are valuable and
commercially important bulk chemicals, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. 1 Among …

Microwave irradiation has been successfully applied in organic chemistry. Spectacular
accelerations, higher yields under milder reaction conditions and higher product purities …

The Pd (0)-catalyzed vinylation of aryl halides was first reported over 30 years ago in
independent studies by Mizoroki and Heck. 1 The transformation that has come to be known …