ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2024
Carbon Dots: A Review with Focus on Sustainability.
Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- Insights Into the Antibiofilm Activity of Carbon Quantum Dots Against a Panel of Different Microorganisms: A Review.MicrobiologyOpen · 2026Review
- Citric acid-modulated carbon dots derived from black tea waste for multifunctional food packaging: anti-counterfeiting and UV-protective preservation.RSC advances · 2026Article
- Seeking brightness from nature: controlled synthesis of multicolor fluorescent carbon dots from biomass.Nanoscale advances · 2026Article
- Carbon dot-integrated edible films: emerging synergies for advanced food packaging applications.RSC advances · 2026Review
- One-Step Fabrication of N,S-Codoped Carbon Dots fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Carbon dots as photosensitizers: unraveling their ultrafast charge transfer, challenges, and future prospects.Nanoscale advances · 2026Review
- Multifunctional Glycine-Carbon Dots Protect Against Arsenic Hepatotoxicity Through Redox Balance and PI3K/AKT Activation.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Article
- Thiadiazolobenzotriazole-Based Donor-Acceptor Terpolymers That Can Be Processed from Green Solvents and Deliver 950 nm Emission in Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Bio-inspired ultrasonic microreactor for efficient synthesis of indigo-emitting carbon dots with tunable morphology and enhanced optical properties.Ultrasonics sonochemistry · 2025Article
- Efficient preparation of highly fluorescent dual-emission carbon dots and their application in berberine hydrochloride detection.RSC advances · 2025Article
- Carbon Dots for Nucleic Acid-Based Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Focus on Oxidative DNA Damage.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Approach to Chelating Radioactivity using Carbon Dots for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025Article
- Biphosphor Carbon Dots/Chlorophyll System Entirely Derived fromACS nanoscience Au · 2025Article
- Centrifugal Partition Chromatography Is a Powerful Tool for the Isolation of Antibiofilm Quantum Carbon Dots Synthesized by Hydrothermal Treatment of Avocado Peels.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Deep-Blue and Narrowband-Emitting Carbon Dots from a Sustainable Precursor for Random Lasing.ACS applied nano materials · 2025Article
- Ultra-Sensitive Gas Sensor Based on CDs@ZnO.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Enhancing the Fluorescence and Antimicrobial Performance of Carbon Dots via Hypochlorite Treatment.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of the Electrode Material on the Performance of Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025Article
- Green carbon dots in the era of AI: sustainable synthesis, intelligent drug delivery, advanced diagnostics, and bioimaging.Turkish journal of biology = Turk biyoloji dergisi · 2025Review
- Biobased carbon dots as photoreductants - an investigation by using triarylsulfonium salts.Beilstein journal of organic chemistry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Carbon dots (CDs) are an emerging class of nanomaterials with attractive optical properties, which promise to enable a variety of applications. An important and timely question is whether CDs can become a functional and sustainable alternative to incumbent optical nanomaterials, notably inorganic quantum dots. Herein, the current CD literature is comprehensively reviewed as regards to their synthesis and function, with a focus on sustainability aspects. The study quantifies why it is attractive that CDs can be synthesized with biomass as the sole starting material and be free from toxic and precious metals and critical raw materials. It further describes and analyzes employed pretreatment, chemical-conversion, purification, and processing procedures, and highlights current issues with the usage of solvents, the energy and material efficiency, and the safety and waste management. It is specially shown that many reported synthesis and processing methods are concerningly wasteful with the utilization of non-sustainable solvents and energy. It is finally recommended that future studies should explicitly consider and discuss the environmental influence of the selected starting material, solvents, and generated byproducts, and that quantitative information on the required amounts of solvents, consumables, and energy should be provided to enable an evaluation of the presented methods in an upscaled sustainability context.
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