About 70 million tons of sulfur are produced yearly as a by-product of petroleum refining,
and 10 millions are overproduced and accumulated, thus requiring advanced recycling …

Recent advances in nanoscale science and engineering have generated nanomaterials
with unique optical properties. Over the past decade, numerous fluorescent nanoprobes …

Water pollution caused by hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)] ions has attracted increasing
attention because Cr (VI) ions are highly toxic and carcinogenic, which may cause serious …

Drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria as a worldwide health threat calls for valid antimicrobial
agents and tactics in clinical practice. Positively charged materials usually achieve …

A simple one-step hydrothermal green approach was reported for the preparation of carbon
dots (CDs) without any further decoration or modification with papaya powder as natural …

The present work is the first attempt to study the applicability of sulfur quantum dots (SQDs)
as functional fillers for food packaging biopolymer films. SQDs were prepared via …

An H2O2‐assisted top‐down approach is used to synthesize brightly luminescent, color‐
tunable sulfur quantum dots (SQDs), with a photoluminescence quantum yield of up to 23 …

The direct utilization of abundant and cheap elemental sulfur (S) to synthesize sulfur
quantum dots (SQDs) with satisfactory yield and photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) …

A novel kind of quantum dots, sulfur quantum dots (S dots), is synthesized by simply treating
sublimated sulfur powders with alkali using polyethylene glycol-400 as passivation agents …

Sensitive and low-cost determination of Ag+ is important due to the potential risk of Ag+
increasingly applied in various fields. In this work, we report an extremely simple …