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 …

Precursor-dependent structural diversity in luminescent carbonized polymer dots (CPDs): the nomenclature

Q Zeng, T Feng, S Tao, S Zhu, B Yang - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Carbon dots (CDs) have received immense attention in the last decade because they are
easy-to-prepare, nontoxic, and tailorable carbon-based fluorescent nanomaterials. CDs can …

Snapshots into carbon dots formation through a combined spectroscopic approach

F Rigodanza, M Burian, F Arcudi, L Đorđević… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The design of novel carbon dots with ad hoc properties requires a comprehensive
understanding of their formation mechanism, which is a complex task considering the …

Carbon nanodots: a review—from the current understanding of the fundamental photophysics to the full control of the optical response

A Sciortino, A Cannizzo, F Messina - C, 2018 - mdpi.com
Carbon dots (CDs) are an emerging family of nanosystems displaying a range of fascinating
properties. Broadly speaking, they can be described as small, surface-functionalized …

The formation mechanism and fluorophores of carbon dots synthesized via a bottom-up route

D Qu, Z Sun - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) with incomparable optical properties have attracted extensive attention.
However, some unclear issues remain, which has impeded the basic understanding and …

Carbon Dots with Red Emission for Sensing of Pt2+, Au3+, and Pd2+ and Their Bioapplications in Vitro and in Vivo

W Gao, H Song, X Wang, X Liu, X Pang… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Red emissive carbon dots (CDs) have drawn more and more attention due to their good
organ penetration depth and slight biological tissue photodamage. Herein, the fluorescent …

Influence of molecular fluorophores on the research field of chemically synthesized carbon dots

Y Xiong, J Schneider, EV Ushakova, AL Rogach - Nano Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs)–small crystalline or amorphous carbon-based nanoparticles–have
attracted much attention as promising fluorescent materials for a wide range of applications …

Narrow‐bandwidth emissive carbon dots: A rising star in the fluorescent material family

B Zhao, H Ma, M Zheng, K Xu, C Zou, S Qu… - Carbon …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have recently become a research hotspot in multidisciplinary
fields owing to their distinctive advantages, including outstanding photoluminescence …

Progress and challenges in understanding of photoluminescence properties of carbon dots based on theoretical computations

M Langer, M Paloncýová, M Medveď, M Pykal… - Applied Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs), including graphene quantum dots, carbon nanodots, carbon quantum
dots, and carbonized polymer dots, belong to extensively studied nanomaterials with a very …