The synthetic strategies, photoluminescence mechanisms and promising applications of carbon dots: Current state and future perspective

C He, P Xu, X Zhang, W Long - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs), a rising star in carbon nanomaterials, have attracted enormous attention
since their discovery in 2004. Up to now, a large number of approaches have been …

Applications of carbon dots in environmental pollution control: A review

C Long, Z Jiang, J Shangguan, T Qing, P Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the development of carbon-based nanomaterials, carbon dots (CDs) have recently
received increasing attention owing to their unique optical properties, low toxicity, facile …

Nitrogen-doped carbon dots: Recent developments in its fluorescent sensor applications

S Munusamy, TR Mandlimath, P Swetha… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Doped carbon dots have attracted great attention from researchers across disciplines
because of their unique characteristics, such as their low toxicity, physiochemical stability …

Recent advances in the synthesis of carbon dots from renewable biomass by high-efficient hydrothermal and microwave green approaches

V Bressi, AM Balu, D Iannazzo, C Espro - Current Opinion in Green and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs), a class of novel zero-dimensional nanomaterials, have recently
emerged as excellent candidates for versatile applications in several fields due to their …

Mechanisms for carbon dots-based chemosensing, biosensing, and bioimaging: A review

J Hu, Y Sun, AA Aryee, L Qu, K Zhang, Z Li - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the favorable biocompatibility, photostability and fluorescence emissions, carbon
dots (CDs) are being widely investigated as fluorescent probes. Current CD-based …

Carbon dots for intracellular sensing

F Lin, C Jia, FG Wu - Small Structures, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs), a type of small, carbon element‐based nanomaterials, have found
numerous applications in many fields due to their outstanding properties like fascinating …

Carbon dots-releasing hydrogels with antibacterial activity, high biocompatibility, and fluorescence performance as candidate materials for wound healing

F Cui, J Sun, J Ji, X Yang, K Wei, H Xu, Q Gu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibacterial hydrogels have received attention for preventing infections and for their
biomedical applications. However, traditional antibiotics-containing and metal nanoparticle …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in drug delivery and diagnostic applications of carbon dots: a systematic review

H Kaurav, D Verma, A Bansal, DN Kapoor… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Carbon dots (CDs), which have particle size of less than 10 nm, are carbon-based
nanomaterials that are used in a wide range of applications in the area of novel drug …

Multifunctional chitosan non-woven fabrics modified with terylene carbon dots for selective detection and efficient adsorption of Cr (VI)

T Hu, L Zeng, Y Li, Y Wu, Z Zhu, Y Zhang, D Tian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel terylene carbon dots (TCDs) were successfully synthesized by a one-step
solvothermal method, and further modified onto chitosan non-woven fabrics (CNF) for …

Chiral carbon dots-enzyme nanoreactors with enhanced catalytic activity for cancer therapy

P Gao, S Chen, S Liu, H Liu, Z Xie… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
As a class of functional proteins, enzymes possess inherent insignificant features, for
instance, mediocre stability and membrane impermeability and reduced enzymatic activity …