Songyuan Tao

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed recent progress on CDs utilized for photocatalysis from different perspectives, including the following three parts: classification and synthesis, mechanism of CDs-derived photocatalysts as well as the applications for environmental issues (up-converted photoluminescence (PL) and energy conversion).

TL;DR: The results show the potential of PCDs as a universal route to achieve effective metal-free RTP and find that RTP is associated with a crosslink-enhanced emission (CEE) effect, which provides further routes to design improved PCDs with diverse RTP performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a unique strategy is proposed to modulate fluorescence color of carbon dots (CDs) under both aqueous solution and solid state for bright multicolor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) applications.

TL;DR: A large amount of emerging research on carbon dots (CDs) has been gradually improving the understanding of their structures, properties and emission mechanism as mentioned in this paper, and a new concept, polymer carbon dots, is put forward to generalize all kinds of CDs based on the summary of related reports.

TL;DR: Self‐quenching‐resistant solid‐state fluorescent polymer carbon dots (SSFPCDs) are prepared, which exhibit strong red SSF without any other additional solid matrices, while having a large production yield and a considerable quantum yield of 8.50%.