(Nanowerk News) Thanks to their unusual optical properties, carbon particles with diameters on the order of a few nanometers – so-called carbon dots – show great promise for a wide range of ...

In the quest for sustainable and efficient methods to detect heavy metals in the environment, a new study titled "Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Biomass-Derived N-Doped Carbon Dots for Metal Ion ...

Carbon dots (CDs) are a class of fluorescent carbon nanomaterials with sizes below 10 nm. They are composed of sp2/sp3 hybridized carbon cores with abundant surface functional groups. CDs exhibit ...

Each year, although numerous new pharmaceutical drugs are developed in the lab, most will eventually fail in clinical trials. They are carefully synthesized and exhibit excellent therapeutic efficacy ...

Hard carbon (HC) is considered the most promising anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) due to its high ...

In a new Frontiers in Nanotechnology study, researchers synthesize carbon dots using different precursors and studied their antimicrobial effects in gram-negative bacteria. This discovery comes at a ...

Truncated icosahedron: technical term for a soccer ball in the United States, a football everywhere else. The scientists who vaporized the graphite to produce C 60 named the new carbon allotrope ...

After running simulations on the world's most powerful supercomputer, an international team of researchers has developed a theory for the nuclear structure and origin of carbon-12, the stuff of life.