Materials Science Applications of Carbon Dots | Coloquio 2019

Raz Jelinek. Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University (Israel) Carbon dots (C-dots) are small (on the order of 10 nm or less), quasi-spherical graphitic nanoparticles and have attracted considerable interest due to their unique structural, electronic, and optical properties, as well as their biocompatibility. In particular, C-dots exhibit multicolor, tunable fluorescence emissions, dependent upon both the nanoparticles surface units and their molecular environments. In this presentation I will describe recent work from my laboratory demonstrating varied applications in materials science, sensing, and imaging.