Artifacts and errors associated with the ubiquitous presence of fluorescent impurities in carbon nanodots

JB Essner, JA Kist, L Polo-Parada… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent carbon dots have attracted tremendous attention owing to their superlative
optical properties which suggest opportunities for replacing conventional fluorescent …

Effect of lateral size of graphene quantum dots on their properties and application

F Zhang, F Liu, C Wang, X Xin, J Liu… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Well-defined graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are crucial for their biological applications and
the construction of nanoscaled optoelectronic and electronic devices. However, as …

Heterogeneity in the fluorescence of graphene and graphene oxide quantum dots

SJ Bradley, R Kroon, G Laufersky, M Röding… - Microchimica Acta, 2017 - Springer
Heterogeneity is an inherent property of a wealth of real-world nanomaterials and yet rarely
in the reporting of new properties is its effect sufficiently addressed. Graphene quantum dots …

Facile and large-scale synthesis of graphene quantum dots for selective targeting and imaging of cell nucleus and mitochondria

Z Fan, Y Nie, Y Wei, J Zhao, X Liao, J Zhang - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have good biocompatibility, high luminescence, and low
photobleaching properties, which make them promising alternatives to fluorescent dyes for …

Phenolic condensation and facilitation of fluorescent carbon dot formation: a mechanism study

K Lee, E Park, HA Lee, C Sugnaux, M Shin, CJ Jeong… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent carbon dots have received considerable attention as a result of their
accessibility and potential applications. Although several prior studies have demonstrated …

Surface plasmon enhancement of photoluminescence in photo-chemically synthesized graphene quantum dot and Au nanosphere

B Park, SJ Kim, JS Sohn, MS Nam, S Kang, SC Jun - Nano Research, 2016 - Springer
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are promising candidates for potential applications such as
novel optoelectronic devices and bio-imaging. However, insufficient light absorption to …

Facile production of graphene quantum dots using a molecular adhesive membrane filter

Y Kim, KI Min, S Jeong, K Lee - Bulletin of the Korean Chemical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the myriad of studies on graphene quantum dots (GQDs), the commercialization of
GQDs has been extremely limited until recently. The biggest bottleneck is the absence of a …

Insights on salting-out triggering aggregation-induced emission in nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots

A Ayala-Fonseca, G Ramírez-García, JD Mota-Morales… - Carbon, 2024 - Elsevier
A straightforward methodology for obtaining Nitrogen-doped Graphene Quantum Dots (N-
GQDs) with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) using salting-out purification processes is …

Optically induced sieve effect for nanoparticles near a nanofiber taper

M Sadgrove, T Yoshino, M Sugawara, Y Mitsumori… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate size-selective optical trapping and transport for nanoparticles near an
optical nanofiber taper. Using a two-wavelength counterpropagating mode configuration, we …

Intrinsic emission from nanographenes

K Yamato, R Sekiya, S Nishitani… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Top‐down approaches have been widely used as convenient methods for the production of
nanographenes. To understand the photoemission properties of nanographenes, their …