Photoluminescent and chromic nanomaterials for anticounterfeiting technologies: recent advances and future challenges

A Abdollahi, H Roghani-Mamaqani, B Razavi… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Counterfeiting and inverse engineering of security and confidential documents, such as
banknotes, passports, national cards, certificates, and valuable products, has significantly …

A mini review on carbon quantum dots: preparation, properties, and electrocatalytic application

X Wang, Y Feng, P Dong, J Huang - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Luminescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) represent a new form of nanocarbon materials
which have gained widespread attention in recent years, especially in chemical sensor …

Carbon quantum dots for biomedical applications: review and analysis

N Azam, M Najabat Ali, T Javaid Khan - Frontiers in Materials, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a new type of nano-carbons that are currently favored
over semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) because of their solubility, low toxicity, eco …

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 …

Carbon and graphene quantum dots: a review on syntheses, characterization, biological and sensing applications for neurotransmitter determination

S Tajik, Z Dourandish, K Zhang, H Beitollahi… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Neuro-transmitters have been considered to be essential biochemical molecules, which
monitor physiological and behavioral function in the peripheral and central nervous systems …

Small molecules derived carbon dots: synthesis and applications in sensing, catalysis, imaging, and biomedicine

A Sharma, J Das - Journal of nanobiotechnology, 2019 - Springer
Carbon dots (CDs) are the new fellow of carbon family having a size less than 10 nm and
attracted much attention of researchers since the last decade because of their unique …

Recent progress in carbon quantum dots: synthesis, properties and applications in photocatalysis

R Wang, KQ Lu, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) as a rising star of carbon nanomaterials, by virtue of their
unique physicochemical, optical and electronic properties, have displayed tremendous …

Carbon dots as photosensitisers for solar-driven catalysis

GAM Hutton, BCM Martindale, E Reisner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Artificial photosynthesis is the mimicry of the natural process of solar energy conversion into
chemical energy carriers. Photocatalytic systems that combine light-harvesting materials and …

Excited state modulation for organic afterglow: materials and applications

S Xu, R Chen, C Zheng, W Huang - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Organic afterglow materials, developed recently by breaking through the difficulties in
modulating ultrafast‐decayed excited states, exhibit ultralong‐lived emission for persistent …

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 …