The role of molecular fluorophores in the photoluminescence of carbon dots derived from citric acid: current state-of-the-art and future perspectives

W Kasprzyk, T Świergosz, PP Romańczyk, J Feldmann… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs), an emerging class of nanomaterials, have attracted considerable
attention due to their intriguing photophysical properties. Despite their indisputable potential …

Challenges and future prospects of graphene-based hybrids for solar fuel generation: moving towards next generation photocatalysts

K Bramhaiah, S Bhattacharyya - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Considering the current global energy crisis and the most alarming environmental pollution
issues, moving towards renewable energy resources instead of fossil fuels should be the …

Landsca** sustainable conversion of waste plastics to carbon dots and enormous diversity in O2 harvesting, hypoxia, autophagy

B Kommula, M Banoo, RS Roy, S Sil, AK Sah, B Rawat… - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent discoveries using polyethylene-derived carbon dots (CD) not only offer tangible
ways of mitigating plastics pollution but also open tremendous application prospects. Using …

Waste polyethylene-derived carbon dots: administration of metal-free oxidizing agents for tunable properties and photocatalytic hyperactivity

B Kommula, S Chakraborty, M Banoo… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The possibility of converting waste plastics into carbon dots (CDs) with 100% efficiencies
using KMnO4 has emerged as a significant discovery in mitigating plastic pollution and …

Solvent-Assisted Structural Modifications of Sulfur Dots Followed by Time-Dependent Emergence of a New Emissive State and Long-Lived Afterglow

S Mandal, JR Biswal, B Kommula… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Sulfur dots are a new class of recently developed nonmetallic luminescent nanomaterials
with various potential applications. Herein, we synthesized sulfur dots using a mild chemical …

Citric acid-based carbon dots and their application in energy conversion

L Vallan, H Imahori - ACS applied electronic materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon dot (CD) is a general term that encompasses a plethora of organic materials
obtained from different reagents and different synthetic routes. Beyond this variety …

Switching between fluorescence and room temperature phosphorescence in Carbon Dots: key role of Heteroatom functionalities

S Mandal, P Durairaj, B Kommula… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Herein, we have synthesized three different types of carbon dots, ie,(a) CDs from citric
acid,(b) nitrogen atom functionalized CDs from citric acid and ammonia, and (c) phosphorus …

From small molecules to zero-dimensional carbon nanodots: chasing the stepwise transformations during carbonization

R Bhuyan, B Kommula, L Bishwal… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Unlike the traditional fluorescent material, carbon dots (CDs) have unique photoluminescent
properties, which directly depend on several synthesis parameters during the bottom-up …

Communication of molecular fluorophores with other photoluminescence centres in carbon dots

M Langer, L Zdražil, M Medveď, M Otyepka - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The establishment of structure-photoluminescence (PL) relationships remains an ultimate
challenge in the field of carbon dots (CDs). It is now commonly understood that various …

Perspectives of different colour‐emissive nanomaterials in fluorescent ink, LEDs, cell imaging, and sensing of various analytes

SV Atulbhai, RK Singhal, H Basu, SK Kailasa - Luminescence, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the past 2 decades, multicolour light‐emissive nanomaterials have gained significant
interest in chemical and biological sciences because of their unique optical properties …