State-of-the-art of biomass-derived carbon dots: Preparation, properties, and applications

M Fang, B Wang, X Qu, S Li, J Huang, J Li, S Lu… - Chinese Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted considerable attention as a new type of fluorescent
carbon nanomaterial because of their excellent optical properties, biocompatibility, and high …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon quantum dots conjugated with metal hybrid nanoparticles as advanced electrocatalyst for energy applications–A review

F Sher, I Ziani, M Smith, G Chugreeva… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
The recent advances in nanomaterials have led to speculation about the effectivity of carbon
quantum dots applied as electrocatalysts for water splitting. An insufficient amount of …

Carbon quantum dots for energy applications: a review

AS Rasal, S Yadav, A Yadav, AA Kashale… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a class of carbon nanomaterials that have recently gained
recognition as current entrants to traditional semiconductor quantum dots. CQDs have the …

A critical review on the environmental applications of carbon dots

A Hebbar, R Selvaraj, R Vinayagam… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The discovery of zero-dimensional carbonaceous nanostructures called carbon dots (CDs)
and their unique properties associated with fluorescence, quantum confinement and size …

Assessment of biomass-derived carbon dots as highly sensitive and selective templates for the sensing of hazardous ions

P Singh, S Kumar, P Kumar, N Kataria, V Bhankar… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Access to safe drinking water and a hygienic living environment are the basic necessities
that encourage healthy living. However, the presence of various pollutants (especially toxic …

Functional carbon dots derived from biomass and plastic wastes

T Kuang, M Jin, X Lu, T Liu, H Vahabi, Z Gu… - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) have emerged as a promising class of zero-dimensional (0D) carbon
nanomaterials due to their outstanding photoluminescence and electrical properties, along …

Carbon dots as potential antioxidants for the scavenging of multi-reactive oxygen and nitrogen species

F Gao, J Liu, P Gong, Y Yang, Y Jiang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Selenium (Se) and metal-doped carbon dots (CDs) based nanoenzymes have bright
prospects as antioxidants; however, the high cost of Se and potential biotoxicity of metal …

Two birds with one stone: One-pot hydrothermal treatment of dragon fruit peel to simultaneously prepare efficient biochar adsorbent and fluorescent carbon quantum …

J Tan, L Zhou - Industrial Crops and Products, 2024 - Elsevier
The abundance of dragon fruit peel (DFP) has led to increased focus on its use for value-
added purposes. This work presents a simple one-pot hydrothermal method to synthesize …

Preparation of nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots from chelating agent and used as fluorescent probes for accurate detection of ClO− and Cr (Ⅵ)

G Wang, S Zhang, J Cui, W Gao, X Rong, Y Lu… - Analytica Chimica …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel ionic sensor based on nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots (N-CQDs)
was developed for sensitive detection of hypochlorite ions (ClO−) and dichromate ions (Cr …

Green synthesis and characterization of carbon-based materials for sensitive detection of heavy metal ions

S Bilge, L Karadurmus, A Sınağ, SA Ozkan - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pollution caused by heavy metal ions is becoming an increasingly critical problem every
year. Heavy metal ions such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury are very …