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A review on nanostructured carbon quantum dots and their applications in biotechnology, sensors, and chemiluminescence.
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CQDs, their structure, and PL characteristics are introduced and recent advances of the application of CQDs in biotechnology, sensors, and CL is comprehensively discussed.About:
This article is published in Talanta.The article was published on 2019-05-01. It has received 286 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quantum dot.read more
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Mass production and dynamic imaging of fluorescent nanodiamonds
Yi Ren Chang,Hsu-Yang Lee,Kowa Chen,Chun-Chieh Chang,Dung-Sheng Tsai,Chi Cheng Fu,Tsong-Shin Lim,Yan-Kai Tzeng,Chia Yi Fang,Chau-Chung Han,Huan-Cheng Chang,Wunshain Fann +11 more
TL;DR: It is shown that bright fluorescent nanodiamonds can be produced in large quantities by irradiating synthetic diamond nanocrystallites with helium ions, and the fluorescence is sufficiently bright and stable to allow three-dimensional tracking of a single particle within the cell by means of either one- or two-photon-excited fluorescence microscopy.
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Carbon Dots: A New Type of Carbon-Based Nanomaterial with Wide Applications
Junjun Liu,Rui Li,Bai Yang +2 more
TL;DR: This Outlook comprehensively summarize the classification of CDs based on the analysis of their formation mechanism, micro-/nanostructure and property features, and describe their synthetic methods and optical properties including strong absorption, photoluminescence, and phosphorescence.
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Carbon quantum dots and their biomedical and therapeutic applications: a review
TL;DR: The nano carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have received increasing attention due to their properties such as small size, fluorescence emission, chemical stability, water solubility, easy synthesis, and the possibility of functionalization as discussed by the authors.
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Carbon and graphene quantum dots: a review on syntheses, characterization, biological and sensing applications for neurotransmitter determination
Somayeh Tajik,Zahra Dourandish,Kaiqiang Zhang,Kaiqiang Zhang,Hadi Beitollahi,Quyet Van Le,Ho Won Jang,Mohammadreza Shokouhimehr +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis methods of GQDs and CQDs have been summarized and their characterization methods also been analyzed, and issues and challenges of the carbon-based QDs were analyzed for their further development.
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Principles, mechanisms, and application of carbon quantum dots in sensors: a review
TL;DR: Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) as an emerging class of quantum dots with advantages such as good photoluminescence (PL) properties, easy synthesis routes, economical synthesis, cheap starting materials, water-solubility, low levels of toxicity, chemical stability and easy functionalization have received great attention during recent years.
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