On the Myth of “Red/Near-IR Carbon Quantum Dots” from Thermal Processing of Specific Colorless Organic Precursors
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Carbon dots were originally found and reported as surface-passivated small carbon nanoparticles, where the effective surface passivation was the chemical functionalization of the carbon nanoparticles with organic molecules. Understandably, the...