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A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2023 | Viewed by 5081
Special Issue Editors

Interests: nanomaterials; colloidal nanoparticles; quantum dots; carbon dots; perovskite nanocrystals; hybrids; nanocomposites; optical properties; self assembly and nanocrystal organization; chemical functionalization
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Interests: colloidal nanocrystals; carbon dots; surface functionalization; nanocomposites; hybrid nanostructures; fluorescence; spectroscopic properties; energy transfer; optoelectronic devices; energy-related applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few years, fluorescent carbon dots (CDots) have been revealed as an intriguing novel class of nanomaterials, thanks to their unique structural, physicochemical, and photochemical properties, including bright and tunable emissions covering the full visible spectrum, hydrophilicity, ease of surface processability, chemical stability, good biocompatibility, low toxicity, and cost-effectiveness, in terms of precursor availability and process-related demands. These interesting properties make fluorescent CDots promising materials for wide-field applications, embracing imaging, sensing, drug delivery, environmental catalysis, optoelectronics, and energy-related applications.
In view of the large interest raised in the scientific community by CDots, we encourage researchers to share their outputs on the synthesis, properties, and applications of such an appealing nanomaterial. This Special Issue’s key interests include advances on novel chemical synthetic approaches to obtain luminescent CDots, revealing the intimate correlation among structural, physical, and chemical properties, with particular attention to the emission mechanisms. Finally, we expect significant contributions to the extension of new applications for CDots, in functional materials, energy-related and light-emitting devices, catalysis, sensing, bioimaging, and biomedicine.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Chemical and green approaches for the synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots;
- Design and synthesis of red-emitting carbon dots;
- Functionalization procedures;
- Investigation of CDot properties as solvation and structural and optical correlation;
- Polymeric nanocomposites and hybrids of carbon dots in host matrices;
- Nanoformulations based on carbon dots in biological systems;
- Emitting properties of carbon dots in solid-state films;
- Modeling and simulations of carbon dots-based systems;
- Carbon dots applications for sensing, energy-related and optoelectronic devices, white emission sources, (bio)imaging and (bio)detection, (photo)catalysis, anticounterfeiting, and forensics.
Dr. Marinella Striccoli
Dr. Annamaria Panniello
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon dots
- fluorescence
- red emission
- nanocomposites
- hybrid nanostructures
- sustainable synthesis
- green nanomaterials
- sensors
- white-emitting materials
- biological nanovectors