Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots
In the most recent decade, carbon dots have drawn intensive attention and triggered substantial investigation. Carbon dots manifest superior merits, including excellent biocompatibility both in vitro and in vivo, resistance to photobleaching, easy surface functionalization and bio-conjugation, outst...
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| author | Xiao, Lian Sun, Handong |
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| description | In the most recent decade, carbon dots have drawn intensive attention and triggered substantial investigation. Carbon dots manifest superior merits, including excellent biocompatibility both in vitro and in vivo, resistance to photobleaching, easy surface functionalization and bio-conjugation, outstanding colloidal stability, eco-friendly synthesis, and low cost. All of these endow them with the great potential to replace conventional unsatisfactory fluorescent heavy metal-containing semiconductor quantum dots or organic dyes. Even though the understanding of their photoluminescence mechanism is still controversial, carbon dots have already exhibited many versatile applications. In this article, we summarize and review the recent progress achieved in the field of carbon dots, and provide a comprehensive summary and discussion on their synthesis methods and emission mechanisms. We also present the applications of carbon dots in bioimaging, drug delivery, microfluidics, light emitting diode (LED), sensing, logic gates, and chiral photonics, etc. Some unaddressed issues, challenges, and future prospects of carbon dots are also discussed. We envision that carbon dots will eventually have great commercial utilization and will become a strong competitor to some currently used fluorescent materials. It is our hope that this review will provide insights into both the fundamental research and practical applications of carbon dots. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1075792023-02-28T19:49:58Z Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots Xiao, Lian Sun, Handong School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences MajuLab, CNRS-UCA-SU-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies Science::Physics Carbon Nanodots In the most recent decade, carbon dots have drawn intensive attention and triggered substantial investigation. Carbon dots manifest superior merits, including excellent biocompatibility both in vitro and in vivo, resistance to photobleaching, easy surface functionalization and bio-conjugation, outstanding colloidal stability, eco-friendly synthesis, and low cost. All of these endow them with the great potential to replace conventional unsatisfactory fluorescent heavy metal-containing semiconductor quantum dots or organic dyes. Even though the understanding of their photoluminescence mechanism is still controversial, carbon dots have already exhibited many versatile applications. In this article, we summarize and review the recent progress achieved in the field of carbon dots, and provide a comprehensive summary and discussion on their synthesis methods and emission mechanisms. We also present the applications of carbon dots in bioimaging, drug delivery, microfluidics, light emitting diode (LED), sensing, logic gates, and chiral photonics, etc. Some unaddressed issues, challenges, and future prospects of carbon dots are also discussed. We envision that carbon dots will eventually have great commercial utilization and will become a strong competitor to some currently used fluorescent materials. It is our hope that this review will provide insights into both the fundamental research and practical applications of carbon dots. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Accepted version 2019-11-05T06:51:06Z 2019-12-06T22:34:42Z 2019-11-05T06:51:06Z 2019-12-06T22:34:42Z 2018 Journal Article Xiao, L., & Sun, H. (2018). Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots. Nanoscale Horizons, 3(6), 565-597. doi:10.1039/C8NH00106E 2055-6764 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107579 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50334 10.1039/C8NH00106E en Nanoscale Horizons © 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Nanoscale Horizons and is made available with permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry. 58 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Science::Physics Carbon Nanodots Xiao, Lian Sun, Handong Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots |
| title | Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots |
| title_full | Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots |
| title_fullStr | Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots |
| title_full_unstemmed | Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots |
| title_short | Novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots |
| title_sort | novel properties and applications of carbon nanodots |
| topic | Science::Physics Carbon Nanodots |
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