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 …

Evolution and synthesis of carbon dots: from carbon dots to carbonized polymer dots

C **a, S Zhu, T Feng, M Yang, B Yang - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the various synthesis methods to obtain carbon dots (CDs), the bottom‐up methods
are still the most widely administrated route to afford large‐scale and low‐cost synthesis …

Carbon quantum dots and their applications

SY Lim, W Shen, Z Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles or carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a new class of carbon
nanomaterials that have emerged recently and have garnered much interest as potential …

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 …

The development of carbon dots: From the perspective of materials chemistry

S Li, L Li, H Tu, H Zhang, DS Silvester, CE Banks… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The advance of materials chemistry has influenced significantly the lifestyle of mankind. By
virtue of their fascinating physicochemical nature–including ultrasmall size (< 10 nm), rich …

Zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterials for fluorescent sensing and imaging

Z Yang, T Xu, H Li, M She, J Chen, Z Wang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Advances in nanotechnology and nanomaterials have attracted considerable interest and
play key roles in scientific innovations in diverse fields. In particular, increased attention has …

The photoluminescence mechanism in carbon dots (graphene quantum dots, carbon nanodots, and polymer dots): current state and future perspective

S Zhu, Y Song, X Zhao, J Shao, J Zhang, B Yang - Nano research, 2015 - Springer
At present, the actual mechanism of the photoluminescence (PL) of fluorescent carbon dots
(CDs) is still an open debate among researchers. Because of the variety of CDs, it is highly …

Review of carbon and graphene quantum dots for sensing

M Li, T Chen, JJ Gooding, J Liu - ACS sensors, 2019 - ACS Publications
Carbon and graphene quantum dots (CQDs and GQDs), known as zero-dimensional (0D)
nanomaterials, have been attracting increasing attention in sensing and bioimaging. Their …

[HTML][HTML] Broad family of carbon nanoallotropes: classification, chemistry, and applications of fullerenes, carbon dots, nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, and …

V Georgakilas, JA Perman, J Tucek, R Zboril - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The unique ability of carbon atoms to participate in robust covalent bonds with other carbon
atoms in diverse hybridization states (sp, sp 2, sp 3) or with nonmetallic elements enables …

Glowing graphene quantum dots and carbon dots: properties, syntheses, and biological applications

XT Zheng, A Ananthanarayanan, KQ Luo, P Chen - small, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and carbon dots (C‐dots) have gained
tremendous attention for their enormous potentials for biomedical applications, owing to …