Sustainable synthesis of bright green fluorescent carbon quantum dots from lignin for highly sensitive detection of Fe³⁺ ions

Engineering & Materials Science

• Carbon Quantum Dots 100%
• Nanoprobes 51%
• Ions 43%
• Biomass 25%
• Carbon 21%
• Quantum yield 17%
• Acids 17%
• Metal ions 13%
• Functional groups 12%
• Nanostructured materials 11%
• Waste disposal 11%
• Costs 3%

Physics & Astronomy

• quantum dots 36%
• synthesis 34%
• carbon 31%
• biomass 22%
• ions 22%
• acids 10%
• disposal 7%
• metal ions 6%
• fragments 4%
• dissociation 4%
• quenching 4%
• fluorescence 4%
• preparation 4%
• wavelengths 2%
• energy 1%

Chemical Compounds

• Lignin 47%
• Green 32%
• Ion 18%
• Carbon Atom 13%
• Emission Wavelength 10%
• Fluorescence Quenching 8%
• Dissociation 6%
• Acid 6%
• Additive 6%
• Chemical Transformation 5%
• Metal Ion 5%
• Nanomaterial 5%
• Energy 4%
• Surface 3%