Carbon dots (CDs) are a new category of crystalline, quasi-spherical fluorescence,“zero-
dimensional” carbon nanomaterials with a spatial size between 1 nm to 10 nm and have …

Carbon dots (CDs) are a new type of carbon nanomaterial that have unique physical and
chemical properties, good biocompatibility, low toxicity, and easy surface functionalization …

Carbon dots, an emerging class within the carbon allotrope family, have gained significant
attention largely due to their versatile and tunable physico-chemical and optical properties …

Carbon-based quantum dots (CQDs) have been shown to have promising application value
in tumor diagnosis. Their use, however, is severely hindered by the complicated nature of …

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs), having outstanding biocompatibility, attractive catalytic
performance, excellent optical properties, and valuable environment friendliness, are …

Carbon dots (CDs) possess superior fluorescent properties in that they do not blink, are
biocompatible, chemically inert, have small size and well tunable photoluminescence (PL) …

Multi-colored, water soluble fluorescent carbon nanodots (C-Dots) with quantum yield
changing from 4.6 to 18.3% were synthesized in multi-gram using dated cola beverage …

Up to date, most of room temperature phosphorescent (RTP) carbon dots (CDs) have been
applied to information encryption, anticounterfeiting and sensing. However, quite a few …

Highly fluorescent nitrogen-doped carbon dots (N-CDs) were synthesized using the extract
of unripe Prunus mume (P. mume) fruit by a simple one step hydrothermal-carbonization …

Carbon dots (CDs) have been widely studied since their discovery in 2004 as a green
substitute of the traditional quantum dots due to their excellent photoluminescence (PL) and …