A multifunctional chemical toolbox to engineer carbon dots for biomedical and energy applications

L Ðorđević, F Arcudi, M Cacioppo, M Prato - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Photoluminescent carbon nanoparticles, or carbon dots, are an emerging class of materials
that has recently attracted considerable attention for biomedical and energy applications …

Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications

A Döring, E Ushakova, AL Rogach - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon dots are luminescent carbonaceous nanoparticles that can be endowed with chiral
properties, making them particularly interesting for biomedical applications due to their low …

The synthetic strategies, photoluminescence mechanisms and promising applications of carbon dots: Current state and future perspective

C He, P Xu, X Zhang, W Long - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs), a rising star in carbon nanomaterials, have attracted enormous attention
since their discovery in 2004. Up to now, a large number of approaches have been …

Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules

A Das, EV Kundelev, AA Vedernikova… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon dots (CDs) are light-emitting nanoparticles that show great promise for applications
in biology and medicine due to the ease of fabrication, biocompatibility, and attractive optical …

Electrochemical synthesis of carbon quantum dots

D Rocco, VG Moldoveanu, M Feroci… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon quantum dots (CDs) are “small” carbon nanostructures with excellent
photoluminescence properties, together with low‐toxicity, high biocompatibility, excellent …

Opportunity and application of chiral carbon dots

Y Shi, W Su, Q Teng, C Li, T Yuan, H Xu, X Song… - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Carbon dots (CDs), with the unique advantages of low cost, low toxicity, good photostability,
and tunable photoluminescence, have achieved remarkable progress in terms of their …

Recent progress on chiral carbon dots: Synthetic strategies and biomedical applications

X Chen, M Yu, P Li, C Xu, S Zhang… - … Science & Engineering, 2023 - ACS Publications
The discovery of chiral carbon dots (Ch-CDs) has opened up an exciting new research
direction in the field of carbon dots. It not only retains the chirality of the precursor and …

Transmitting biomolecular chirality into carbon nanodots: a facile approach to acquire chiral light emission at the nanoscale

S Maniappan, KL Reddy, J Kumar - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the observation of chirality at the nanoscale, research focused towards the design and
synthesis of optically active nanomaterials has been at a brisk pace. In this regard, carbon …

Supra-(carbon dots) with versatile morphologies and promising optical properties

D Li, Y Qu, X Zhang, W Zheng, AL Rogach… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Through non-covalent or covalent assembly of carbon dots (CDs), functional CD assemblies
(supra-CDs) with versatile architectures can be created. Among non-covalent forces, various …

Versatile fluorescent carbon dots from citric acid and cysteine with antimicrobial, anti-biofilm, antioxidant, and AChE enzyme inhibition capabilities

SS Suner, M Sahiner, RS Ayyala… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Nanostructured fluorescent particles derived from natural molecules were prepared by a
green synthesis technique employing a microwave method. The precursors citric acid (CA) …