Doped Carbon Dots for Sensing and Bioimaging Applications: A Minireview.

Timur Sh Atabaev

doi:10.3390/nano8050342

Abstract

In the last decade, carbon dots (C-dots, CDs) or carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have attracted a considerable amount of attention from the scientific community as a low cost and biocompatible alternative to semiconductor quantum dots. In particular, doped C-dots have excellent fluorescent properties that have been successfully utilized for numerous applications. In this minireview, we overview the recent advances on the synthesis of doped C-dots derived from carbon-rich sources and their potential applications for biomedical and sensing applications. In addition, we will also discuss some challenges and outline some future perspectives of this exciting material.

Highlights

Carbon dots were first discovered in 2004 during single-walled carbon nanotubes purification [1]
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Excitation-dependent C-dots were injected into a mouse and fluorescent images were collected at different excitation wavelengths (Figure 6)

Summary

Introduction

Carbon dots were first discovered in 2004 during single-walled carbon nanotubes purification [1]. 2. Synthesis and Optical Properties of Doped C-Dots Considering the enormous potential of C-dots for numerous applications, it is extremely necessary to develop their large-scale synthesis.

Results

Conclusion