Natural enzymes are highly efficient catalysts with strong substrate specificity, making them ideal for biomedical applications. However, they often face issues such as variability, high costs, ...

A review in Advanced Energy Materials ("Carbon Dots as New Building Blocks for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Electrocatalysis"), summarizes recent advances in CDs-based electrode materials, ...

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are a part of the carbon quantum dots family. 1 These zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterials possess many superior properties, such as low biological toxicity, nanoscale ...

Carbon nanoparticles, which have a core-shell structure and a diameter of less than 10 nm, exhibit several useful properties. They include ultra-small size, tunable photoluminescence, various ...

Overview of carbon dots. CDs were discovered in the early 21st century. They are defined as carbon-based spherical nanoparticles (NPs; 1–10 nm) ...

The structure of liquid carbon elucidated by in situ X-ray diffraction, in Nature, 2025 (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09035-6) Additional information: Prof. Dominik Kraus ...

A fraction of those unstable carbon nuclei can shoot off a little extra energy in the form of gamma rays and become stable carbon-12, the stuff of life. A paper recently published by the online ...