The development of carbon dots: From the perspective of materials chemistry

S Li, L Li, H Tu, H Zhang, DS Silvester, CE Banks… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The advance of materials chemistry has influenced significantly the lifestyle of mankind. By
virtue of their fascinating physicochemical nature–including ultrasmall size (< 10 nm), rich …

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 …

Strategic modulation of target-specific isolated Fe, Co single-atom active sites for oxygen electrocatalysis impacting high power Zn–air battery

S Sarkar, A Biswas, EE Siddharthan, R Thapa… - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
An effective modulation of the active sites in a bifunctional electrocatalyst is essentially
desired, and it is a challenge to outperform the state-of-the-art catalysts toward oxygen …

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 …

Recent developments of carbon dots in biosensing: A review

C Ji, Y Zhou, RM Leblanc, Z Peng - ACS sensors, 2020 - ACS Publications
Early diagnosis of diseases is of great importance because it increases the chance of a cure
and significantly reduces treatment costs. Thus, development of rapid, sensitive, and reliable …

Review of carbon and graphene quantum dots for sensing

M Li, T Chen, JJ Gooding, J Liu - ACS sensors, 2019 - ACS Publications
Carbon and graphene quantum dots (CQDs and GQDs), known as zero-dimensional (0D)
nanomaterials, have been attracting increasing attention in sensing and bioimaging. Their …

Graphene quantum dots and their applications in bioimaging, biosensing, and therapy

S Chung, RA Revia, M Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are carbon‐based, nanoscale particles that exhibit
excellent chemical, physical, and biological properties that allow them to excel in a wide …

Carbon dots as a new class of nanomedicines: opportunities and challenges

B Wang, H Song, X Qu, J Chang, B Yang… - Coordination chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in preclinical and clinical …

Carbon dots: Synthesis, properties and biomedical applications

G Ge, L Li, D Wang, M Chen, Z Zeng… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) are a new type of carbon nanomaterial that have unique physical and
chemical properties, good biocompatibility, low toxicity, and easy surface functionalization …

Recent advances on graphene quantum dots: from chemistry and physics to applications

Y Yan, J Gong, J Chen, Z Zeng, W Huang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) that are flat 0D nanomaterials have attracted increasing
interest because of their exceptional chemicophysical properties and novel applications in …