Carbon dots (CDots), an emerging class of photoluminescent materials, exhibit excellent
optical, electrical and chemical properties with many potential applications. Hetero-atom …

Nanoscience breakthroughs in almost every field of science and nanotechnologies make life
easier in this era. Nanoscience and nanotechnology represent an expanding research area …

Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) have received tremendous interest in the area of
nanotechnology due to their unique properties and flexible dimensional structure. CNMs …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with multiple emission centers are newly emerging as
ratiometric sensors owing to their high sensitivity and high selectivity toward a wide range of …

Carbon dots (CDs), a kind of carbon material discovered accidentally, exhibit unexpected
advantages in fluorescence imaging/sensing such as photostability, biocompatibility, and …

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a member of carbon nanostructures family which have
received increasing attention for their photoluminescence (PL), physical and chemical …

Growing global biowaste and its environmental issues challenge the need for converting
biowastes into a beneficial product. Among the biowaste, here kiwi fruit (Actinidia Deliciosa) …

Nanoparticles are generally defined as any particulate material for which at least one
dimension lies in the range of 1− 100 nm. 1− 3 They can exist in various shapes, such as …

Carbon-based quantum dots (CQDs) are a newly developed class of carbon nano-materials
that have attracted much interest and attention as promising competitors to already available …

The emerging graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and carbon dots (C‐dots) have gained
tremendous attention for their enormous potentials for biomedical applications, owing to …