Recent Progress on Carbon Quantum Dots Based Photocatalysis
Hwapyung Jung, Vijay S. Sapner, Arindam Adhikari, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Rajkumar Patel
Abstract
As a novel carbon allotrope, carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have been investigated in various fields, including photocatalysis, bioimaging, optoelectronics, energy and photovoltaic devices, biosensing, and drug delivery owing to their unique optical and electronic properties. In particular, CQDs' excellent sunlight harvesting ability, tunable photoluminescence (PL), up-conversion photoluminescence (UCPL), and efficient photo-excited electron transfer have enabled their applications in photocatalysis. This work focuses on the recent progress on CQDs-related materials' synthesis, properties, and applications in photocatalysis.
Topics & Concepts
PhotocatalysisPhotoluminescenceCarbon quantum dotsMaterials scienceNanotechnologyQuantum dotCarbon fibersBiosensorExcited stateEnergy transferElectron transferOptoelectronicsPhotochemistryChemistryEngineering physicsCatalysisPhysicsOrganic chemistryComposite materialNuclear physicsComposite numberCarbon and Quantum Dots ApplicationsNanocluster Synthesis and ApplicationsQuantum Dots Synthesis And Properties