The synthetic strategies, photoluminescence mechanisms and promising applications of carbon dots: Current state and future perspective

C He, P Xu, X Zhang, W Long - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs), a rising star in carbon nanomaterials, have attracted enormous attention
since their discovery in 2004. Up to now, a large number of approaches have been …

Insights into photoluminescence mechanisms of carbon dots: advances and perspectives

L Ai, Y Yang, B Wang, J Chang, Z Tang, B Yang, S Lu - Science Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) are potentially useful in many areas such as bioimaging, light-emitting
diodes, and sensing because of their excellent optical properties, high biocompatibility, and …

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

C Xia, 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‐based quantum dots with solid‐state photoluminescent: mechanism, implementation, and application

A Xu, G Wang, Y Li, H Dong, S Yang, P He, G Ding - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon‐based quantum dots (CQDs), including spherical carbon dots and graphene
quantum dots, are an emerging class of photoluminescent (PL) materials with unique …

Polymer-derived heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials

H Wang, Y Shao, S Mei, Y Lu, M Zhang, J Sun… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials (HPCMs) have found extensive applications in
adsorption/separation, organic catalysis, sensing, and energy conversion/storage. The …

Aggregation in carbon dots: Special Issue: Emerging Investigators

Y Ru, GIN Waterhouse, S Lu - Aggregate, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) possess outstanding luminescence properties, making them widely used
in optical displays, anti‐counterfeiting systems, bioimaging, and sensors. Presently, there is …

Recent development of carbon quantum dots regarding their optical properties, photoluminescence mechanism, and core structure

KJ Mintz, Y Zhou, RM Leblanc - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon quantum dots (CDs) are a relatively new class of carbon nanomaterials which have
been studied very much in the last fifteen years to improve their already favorable properties …

Design of metal‐free polymer carbon dots: a new class of room‐temperature phosphorescent materials

S Tao, S Lu, Y Geng, S Zhu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer carbon dots (PCDs) are proposed as a new class of room‐temperature
phosphorescence (RTP) materials. The abundant energy levels in PCDs increase the …

One‐step hydrothermal synthesis of nitrogen‐doped conjugated carbonized polymer dots with 31% efficient red emission for in vivo imaging

JJ Liu, D Li, K Zhang, M Yang, H Sun, B Yang - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots with long‐wavelength emissions, high quantum yield (QY) and good
biocompatibility are highly desirable for biomedical applications. Herein, a green, facile …

Carbonized polymer dots: a brand new perspective to recognize luminescent carbon-based nanomaterials

S Tao, T Feng, C Zheng, S Zhu… - The journal of physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots (CDs), as emerging luminescent nanomaterials, possess excellent but complex
properties, bringing about extensive attention and a lot of controversy. In this Perspective …