Background With rapid development in agriculture and industry, water polluted with heavy
metallic ions has come to be a serious problem. Adsorption-based methods are simple …

Luminescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) represent a new form of nanocarbon materials
which have gained widespread attention in recent years, especially in chemical sensor …

Knowing the correlation of reaction parameters in the preparation process of carbon dots
(CDs) is essential for optimizing the synthesis strategy, exploring exotic properties, and …

Doped carbon dots have attracted great attention from researchers across disciplines
because of their unique characteristics, such as their low toxicity, physiochemical stability …

As a fascinating class of fluorescent carbon dots (CDs), doped-CDs are now sparked
intense research interest, particularly in the diverse fields of biomedical applications due to …

Biomass-derived carbon quantum dots have drawn special interest owing to their admirable
photostability, biocompatibility, fluorescence, high solubility, sensitivity and environmentally …

Widespread bacterial infection and the spread of antibiotic resistance exhibit increasing
threat to the public and thus require new antibacterial strategies. Carbon quantum dots …

Carbon quantum dots “CQDs” were investigated as photo-luminescent nanomaterials as it
advantageous with nontoxicity to be alternative for metallic-nanomaterials in different …

Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) attract huge attention in analytical and bioanalytical
applications due to their high selectivity towards target analytes, specificity, photostability …

Recent advances in fluorescent carbon dots have shown great potential for the sensing of
biological molecules. In this study, one-step hydrothermally synthesised carbon dots (CD) …