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An Overview on Carbon Quantum Dots Optical and Chemical Features

Molecules, 2023
Carbon quantum dots are the materials of a new era with astonishing properties such as high photoluminescence, chemical tuneability and high biocompatibility.
Marco Giuseppe Giordano, Giulia Seganti, Mattia Bartoli, Alberto Tagliaferro   +3 more
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Carbon Quantum Dots: Properties, Preparation, and Applications

Molecules
Carbon quantum dots are a novel form of carbon material. They offer numerous benefits including particle size adjustability, light resistance, ease of functionalization, low toxicity, excellent biocompatibility, and high-water solubility, as well as ...
Jichuan Kong, Yihui Wei, Feng Zhou, Liting Shi, Shuangjie Zhao, Mengyun Wan, Xiangfeng Zhang   +6 more
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Carbon Quantum Dots Derived from Different Carbon Sources for Antibacterial Applications

Antibiotics, 2021
Nanoparticles possess unique features due to their small size and can be composed of different surface chemistries. Carbon quantum dots possess several unique physico-chemical and antibacterial activities.
Yanyan Wu, Cong Li, Henny C. van der Mei, Henk J. Busscher, Yijin Ren   +4 more
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Inheritance of physico-chemical properties and ROS generation by carbon quantum dots derived from pyrolytically carbonized bacterial sources

Materials Today Bio, 2021
Bacteria are frequently used in industrial processes and nutrient supplementation to restore a healthy human microflora, but use of live bacteria is often troublesome.
Y. Wu, H. Wei, H.C. van der Mei, J. de Vries, H.J. Busscher, Y. Ren   +5 more
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Effect of Synthesis Process, Synthesis Temperature, and Reaction Time on Chemical, Morphological, and Quantum Properties of Carbon Dots Derived from Loblolly Pine

Biomass, 2022
In this study, carbon dots are synthesized hydrothermally from loblolly pine using top-down and bottom-up processes. The bottom-up process dialyzed carbon dots from hydrothermally treated process liquid. Meanwhile, hydrochar was oxidized into carbon dots
Thomas Quaid, Vahab Ghalandari, Toufiq Reza   +2 more
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Carbon “quantum” dots for bioapplications

Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2021
Carbon “quantum” dots or carbon dots (CDots) exploit and enhance the intrinsic photoexcited state properties and processes of small carbon nanoparticles via effective nanoparticle surface passivation by chemical functionalization with organic species.
Dekai Yuan, Ping Wang, Liju Yang, Jesse L Quimby, Ya-Ping Sun   +4 more
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Primary Amine Functionalized Carbon Dots for Dead and Alive Bacterial Imaging

Nanomaterials, 2023
Small molecular dyes are commonly used for bacterial imaging, but they still meet a bottleneck of biological toxicity and fluorescence photobleaching. Carbon dots have shown high potential for bio-imaging due to their low cost and negligible toxicity and
Yuting Liu, Di Zhong, Lei Yu, Yanfeng Shi, Yuanhong Xu   +4 more
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Electrochemical Synthesis of Carbon Quantum Dots

ChemElectroChem, 2023
AbstractCarbon quantum dots (CDs) are “small” carbon nanostructures with excellent photoluminescence properties, together with low‐toxicity, high biocompatibility, excellent dispersibility in water as well as organic solvents. Due to their characteristics, CDs have been studied for a plethora of applications as biosensors, luminescent probes for ...
Daniele Rocco, Vyali Georgian Moldoveanu, Marta Feroci, Martina Bortolami, Fabrizio Vetica   +4 more
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Carbon quantum dots

, 2021
Carbon Quantum dots are a class of materials studied under Nanotechnology. We know that nanotechnology is a wide research topic as it has wide range of applications in various fields. This review is about carbon quantum dots which is the carbon material in the range 1-10 nm. Carbon Quantum dots with unique optical properties, low toxicity, low cost and
Thiago Leandro Oliveira, Annelise Kopp Alves   +1 more
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Fluorescent Quantum Dots and Its Composites for Highly Sensitive Detection of Heavy Metal Ions and Pesticide Residues: A Review

Chemosensors, 2023
Quantum dots nanomaterials have attracted extensive interest for fluorescence chemical sensors due their attributes, such as excellent optical characteristics, quantum size effects, interface effects, etc. Moreover, the fluorescence properties of quantum
Zhezhe Wang, Bo Yao, Yawei Xiao, Xu Tian, Yude Wang   +4 more
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