AUTHOR=Jung Hwapyung , Sapner Vijay S. , Adhikari Arindam , Sathe Bhaskar R. , Patel Rajkumar 

TITLE=Recent Progress on Carbon Quantum Dots Based Photocatalysis

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2022.881495

DOI=10.3389/fchem.2022.881495

ISSN=2296-2646

ABSTRACT=<p>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.</p>