Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42569102›Full record

ArticleACS omega2026

Surface-Engineered Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots with Quaternary Ammonium for Fluorescent Sensing, Antioxidant, and Antibacterial Applications.

Pattanapong Thangsunan, Pacharaphon Khaopueak, Khwanmongkhon Ngoenmueang, Ampha Khampeearya, Jaturawit Kabao, Pachara Sattayawat, Jantira Inkrungkao, Pakorn Saebang, Preecha Mansalai, Siriwan Teepoo and 1 more

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in ACS omega, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Pattanapong ThangsunanDivision of Biochemistry and Biochemical Innovation, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Pacharaphon KhaopueakDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12110, Thailand.
Khwanmongkhon NgoenmueangDivision of Biochemistry and Biochemical Innovation, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Ampha KhampeearyaDivision of Biochemistry and Biochemical Innovation, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Jaturawit KabaoDivision of Biochemistry and Biochemical Innovation, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Pachara SattayawatDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Jantira InkrungkaoDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12110, Thailand.
Pakorn SaebangDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12110, Thailand.
Preecha MansalaiDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12110, Thailand.
Siriwan TeepooDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12110, Thailand.
Kanokorn WechakornDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12110, Thailand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6985-8214

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitrogen-doped carbon dots (CDs) have attracted extensive attention as promising nanomaterials because of their tunable fluorescence, excellent biocompatibility, and the ability in biofunctional modification. In this work, CDs were prepared via hydrothermal treatment using table sugar as the carbon source and polyethylenimine (PEI) as both a nitrogen dopant and a passivation agent. The multifunctional CDs were subsequently modified with the quaternary ammonium salt, benzalkonium chloride (BZC), to enhance surface reactivity and stability for sensing and biomedical applications. The obtained CDs-BZC displayed intense blue emission with a maximum peak at 453 nm under the excitation of 360 nm, accompanied by a high fluorescence quantum yield (37.9%) and an excitation-dependent bathochromic shift. The CDs-BZC were highly photostable and selective to Fe

Identifiers

PMID42569102
PMCPMC13449195

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.