Xiaodie He

TL;DR: The facile one-step alkali-assisted electrochemical fabrication of CQDs with sizes of 1.2– 3.8 nm which possess size-dependent photoluminescence (PL) and excellent upconversion luminescence properties are reported and the design of photocatalysts is demonstrated to harness the use of the full spectrum of sunlight.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize monodispersed water-soluble fluorescent carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) from glucose by a one-step alkali or acid assisted ultrasonic treatment.

TL;DR: In this paper, water-soluble fluorescent carbon nanoparticles were synthesized directly from active carbon by a one-step hydrogen peroxide-assisted ultrasonic treatment, which showed that the surface of carbon was rich of hydroxyl groups resulting in high hydrophilicity.

TL;DR: In this article, high-fluorescence carbon nanoparticles were synthesized directly from ethanol by a one-step sodium hydroxide-assisted electrochemical treatment, which had excellent up-conversion fluorescent, stable ionic, long fluorescence lifetime and pH-sensitive photoluminescence properties.

TL;DR: Water-soluble carbon nanoparticles fabricated by a facile, one step hydrothermal synthetic route using acid/alkali as additives emit bright photoluminescence covering the entire visible-near infrared (NIR) spectral range.