Photoluminescent and chromic nanomaterials for anticounterfeiting technologies: recent advances and future challenges

A Abdollahi, H Roghani-Mamaqani, B Razavi… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Counterfeiting and inverse engineering of security and confidential documents, such as
banknotes, passports, national cards, certificates, and valuable products, has significantly …

Carbon dots as emerging luminophores in security inks for anti-counterfeit applications-An up-to-date review

K Muthamma, D Sunil, P Shetty - Applied Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Amongst the various techniques that have been developed to combat counterfeits, security
printing using advanced luminescent materials has been extensively used for a wide range …

Hydrophilic nitrogen-doped carbon dots from biowaste using dwarf banana peel for environmental and biological applications

R Atchudan, TNJI Edison, S Perumal, N Muthuchamy… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydrophilic nitrogen-doped carbon dots (HN-CDs) were produced by a simple hydrothermal
method from biowaste, dwarf banana peel. XRD, Raman spectroscopy, and HRTEM …

Waste-to-energy: Utilization of recycled waste materials to fabricate triboelectric nanogenerator for mechanical energy harvesting

GM Rani, CM Wu, KG Motora, R Umapathi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to generate electrical energy from recycled waste materials. To our
knowledge, this is the first successful development of a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) …

Future perspectives and review on organic carbon dots in electronic applications

M Semeniuk, Z Yi, V Poursorkhabi, J Tjong, S Jaffer… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Over the span of the past decade, carbon dots (CDs) synthesized from renewable organic
resources (organic CDs) have gathered a considerable amount of attention for their …

Unraveling the Fluorescence Mechanism of Carbon Dots with Sub-Single-Particle Resolution

HA Nguyen, I Srivastava, D Pan, M Gruebele - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Unlike quantum dots, photophysical properties of carbon dots (CDs) are not strongly
correlated with particle size. The origin of CD photoluminescence has been related to sp2 …

Do** and surface modification of carbon quantum dots for enhanced functionalities and related applications

VL John, Y Nair, TP Vinod - Particle & Particle Systems …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a unique class of 0D nanomaterials, featured by a
graphitic core and shell layers saturated with hydrogen atoms and functional groups. CQDs …

A review on multifunctional carbon-dots synthesized from biomass waste: design/fabrication, characterization and applications

NK Khairol Anuar, HL Tan, YP Lim… - Frontiers in energy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Carbon-Dots (C-Dots) have drawn much attention in recent years owing to their remarkable
properties such as high biocompatibility, low toxicity, nano-scale size, and ease of …

Recent studies on cellulose-based fluorescent smart materials and their applications: A comprehensive review

H Nawaz, X Zhang, S Chen, T You, F Xu - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
The progress of bio-based fluorescent smart materials and their multifunctional applications
have attained increasing interest in the recent decades. Cellulose is among the cheapest …

Cigarettes butt littering: The story of the world's most littered item from the perspective of pollution, remedial actions, and policy measures

KR Vanapalli, HB Sharma, S Anand, VP Ranjan… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cigarettes butt (CB) is one of the most littered items on the planet. This paper critically
analyzes the factors responsible for CB littering, and associated environmental ramifications …