Issue 45, 2017

Sustainable carbon-dots: recent advances in green carbon dots for sensing and bioimaging

Abstract

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of carbon dots (c-dots), outshining other members of the carbon family because of their outstanding properties in fluorescence, cytocompatibility, photostability, electronic, mechanical and other chemical properties. This has resulted in an increasing number of applications in bioimaging, sensing, photovoltaic and medicine. Nature offers a wealth of exciting precursors that motivate constant persuasion of benign synthetic routes. Consequently, the past 5 years has seen a tremendous rise in green synthetic approaches of c-dots. This study reviews the journey of green c-dots by means of green sources of synthesis and their applications, with the major focus on various sensors and bioimaging probes.

Graphical abstract: Sustainable carbon-dots: recent advances in green carbon dots for sensing and bioimaging

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
15 Sep 2017
Accepted
24 Oct 2017
First published
24 Oct 2017

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2017,5, 8904-8924

Sustainable carbon-dots: recent advances in green carbon dots for sensing and bioimaging

V. Sharma, P. Tiwari and S. M. Mobin, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2017, 5, 8904 DOI: 10.1039/C7TB02484C

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