Aggregation-induced emission (AIE), life and health

H Wang, Q Li, P Alam, H Bai, V Bhalla, MR Bryce… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Light has profoundly impacted modern medicine and healthcare, with numerous
luminescent agents and imaging techniques currently being used to assess health and treat …

Carbon nanomaterial fluorescent probes and their biological applications

AT Krasley, E Li, JM Galeana, C Bulumulla… - Chemical …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Fluorescent carbon nanomaterials have broadly useful chemical and photophysical
attributes that are conducive to applications in biology. In this review, we focus on materials …

Light of carbon: Recent advancements of carbon dots for LEDs

C Ji, W Xu, Q Han, T Zhao, J Deng, Z Peng - Nano Energy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
LEDs have become the solid-state lighting devices of the century and played significant
roles in relieving energy crisis. Thanks to their superior properties such as excellent …

The light of carbon dots: From mechanism to applications

B Wang, S Lu - Matter, 2022‏ - cell.com
Photoluminescence (PL) nanomaterials are widely used by scientists because of their
important applications in optoelectronic devices and biomedicine, such as use in organic …

Carbon dots: mysterious past, vibrant present, and expansive future

B Wang, GIN Waterhouse, S Lu - Trends in Chemistry, 2023‏ - cell.com
Carbon dots (CDs) are a vibrant subset of luminescent nanomaterials exhibiting structural
and physicochemical properties that make them an ideal platform for the development of …

Thermally Enhanced and Long Lifetime Red TADF Carbon Dots via Multi‐Confinement and Phosphorescence Assisted Energy Transfer

Q Lou, N Chen, J Zhu, K Liu, C Li, Y Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials, which can harvest both singlet
and triplet excitons for high‐efficiency emission, have attracted widespread concern for their …

Carbon dots in bioimaging, biosensing and therapeutics: a comprehensive review

B Wang, H Cai, GIN Waterhouse, X Qu, B Yang… - Small …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs), comprising crystalline graphitized carbon cores and polymer surface
groups, are currently attracting a lot of interest in biological fields owing to their fluorescent …

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 …

Lasing of carbon dots: Chemical design, mechanisms, and bright future

Y Zhang, S Lu - Chem, 2024‏ - cell.com
Carbon dots (CDs) are a new solution-processable laser material. They offer advantages of
non-toxicity, low cost, and high stability, making them attractive for the sustainable …

Photooxidation triggered ultralong afterglow in carbon nanodots

GS Zheng, CL Shen, CY Niu, Q Lou, TC Jiang… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
It remains a challenge to obtain biocompatible afterglow materials with long emission
wavelengths, durable lifetimes, and good water solubility. Herein we develop a …