ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Synthesis and Characterization of Lignocellulose-Based Carbon Quantum Dots (CQDs) and Their Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Functionalities.
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- Functionalized Carbon Dots from Bio-Based Precursors as Promising Fluorescent Probes for Cancer Cell Imaging.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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- Carbon Dots as Multifunctional Nanomaterials: A Review on Antimicrobial Activities and Fluorescence-Based Microbial Detection.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Harnessing carbon potential of lignocellulosic biomass: advances in pretreatments, applications, and the transformative role of machine learning in biorefineries.Bioresources and bioprocessing · 2025Review
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Abstract
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have recently drawn enormous attention due to not only their unique chemical, biological, and optical properties but also because a variety of renewable biomasses are readily utilized as carbon sources in their synthesis. This study investigated the synthesis, characterization, and functional evaluation of CQDs from unbleached mechanical pulp as a natural lignocellulosic resource. The CQDs were synthesized using a one-step hydrothermal synthesis with varying temperature, time, and pulp consistency. The resulting CQDs exhibit a spherical shape with a size distribution of 9.73 ± 0.82 nm and lattice parameters of 0.21 and 0.34 nm, indicating a graphite core. The photoluminescence spectra showed evident fluorescence characteristics, with an emission peak at 435 nm at an excitation wavelength of 370 nm. The as-prepared CQDs were also chemically composed of C=C and C=O bonds linked to the hydroxyl and carboxyl functional groups, which are typically found in lignocellulose-based CQDs. The CQDs demonstrated antibacterial activity exceeding 99.9% against
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