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Record W4411371251 · doi:10.1016/j.nxmate.2025.100787

Carbon quantum dots: Comparative analysis of synthesis strategies and their environmental application

2025· article· en· W4411371251 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNext Materials · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicCarbon and Quantum Dots Applications
Canadian institutionsLakehead University
FundersUniversiti Malaysia Pahang
KeywordsQuantum dotCarbon quantum dotsCarbon fibersNanotechnologyEnvironmental scienceMaterials science

Abstract

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Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a novel and noteworthy addition to the nanomaterial family. CQDs are highly promising nanomaterials owing to their distinctive optical, physical, chemical, structural, and electronic properties. Particularly, the exceptional up-converted photoluminescence (PL), remarkable photoinduced electron transfer, tunable PL, extraordinary biocompatibility, notable chemical inertness, and effective light harvesting ability of CQDs have grown significant interest. Consequently, CQDs have been widely employed across diverse fields such as detection, degradation, adsorption, antimicrobial activities, hydrogen production, CO 2 reduction, energy storage and microplastics detection. Currently, numerous CQD synthesis techniques have been established in which there is a significant change in the formation and structure of CQDs while characterized and applied in practical applications. In this regard, the unique and controlled synthesis techniques are still quite difficult task. In this review, we highlighted a comparative analysis of various synthesis approaches towards planned synthesis of CQDs. In addition, explored the obstacles and potential paths for CQDs, with the goal to achieve highly effective and stable CQDs over the long run. Likewise, this review provides insights guidance for the advance of a cost effective and environmentally friendly synthesis technique for CQDs. Consequently, this review also focused on recent studies concerning the removal of environmental pollutants, with a particular focus on the mechanism for depredating pollutants. Additionally, this study examines and talks about the stability and difficulties of CQDs in the environmental domain.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.492

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it