Recent advances in waste-derived carbon dots and their nanocomposites for environmental remediation and biological applications

H Soni, M Bhattu, SD Priya, M Kaur, M Verma… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The surging demand for eco-friendly nanomaterial synthesis has spurred the emergence of
green approaches for synthesizing carbon dots (CDs). These methods utilized natural …

Carbon dots derived from natural sources and their biological and environmental impacts

S Xiang, M Tan - Environmental Science: Nano, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) have successfully stood out among numerous materials, attributed to
their superior characteristics, including ultra-small size, good photostability, excellent …

Applications of carbon dots in environmental pollution control: A review

C Long, Z Jiang, J Shangguan, T Qing, P Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the development of carbon-based nanomaterials, carbon dots (CDs) have recently
received increasing attention owing to their unique optical properties, low toxicity, facile …

Carbon dots: Synthesis, characterizations, and recent advancements in biomedical, optoelectronics, sensing, and catalysis applications

R Lamba, Y Yukta, J Mondal, R Kumar… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanodots (CNDs), a fascinating carbon-based nanomaterial (typical size 2–10 nm)
owing to their superior optical properties, high biocompatibility, and cell penetrability, have …

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 development in synthesis of carbon dots from natural Resources and their applications in biomedicine and multi‐sensing platform

P Bag, RK Maurya, A Dadwal, M Sarkar… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon has always found a spotlight in human life either in the form of graphite, diamonds,
activated charcoal, carbon nanotubes, or carbon dots (CDs). Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) …

Syntheses of N-doped carbon quantum dots (NCQDs) from bioderived precursors: a timely update

SA Shaik, S Sengupta, RS Varma… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The emergence of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) opens up new opportunities in different
branches of science and technology primarily because of their conducive biocompatibility …

Biowaste-derived carbon dots: a perspective on biomedical potentials

N Rabiee, S Iravani, RS Varma - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Today, sustainable and natural resources including biowastes have been considered
attractive starting materials for the fabrication of biocompatible and biodegradable carbon …

Green synthesis of carbon dots and their applications

S Chahal, JR Macairan, N Yousefi, N Tufenkji… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) are nanoparticles with tunable physicochemical and optical properties.
Their resistance to photobleaching and relatively low toxicity render them attractive …

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 …