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spinach and multipurpose applications. Eur J Inorg Chem 2018:153–158
Ridha AA, Pakravan P, Azandaryani AH, Zhaleh H (2019) Carbon dots; the smallest
photoresponsive structure of carbon in advanced drug targeting. J Drug Del Sci Technol
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Sahoo NK, Jana GC, Aktara MN, Das S, Nayim S, Patra A, Bhattacharjee P, Bhadra K, Hossain M
(2019) Carbon dots derived from lychee waste: application for Fe
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wastewater based on electrostatically driven assembly. Environ Sci Technol 50:6477–6484
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Mohideen MM, Liu Y, Ramakrishan S (2020) Recent progress of carbon dots and carbon nanotubes
applied in oxygen reduction reaction of fuel cell for transportation. Appl Energy
257:114027–114035
Mohod CV, Dhote J (2013) Review of heavy metals in drinking water and their effect on human
health. Int J Innov Res Sci Eng Technol 2:2992–2996
Muhulet A, Miculescu F, Voicu SI, Schutt F, Thakur VK, Mishra YK (2018) Fundamentals and
scopes of doped carbon nanotubes towards energy and biosensing applications. Mater Today
Energy 9:154–186
Muthuraman G, Moon IS (2012) A review on an electrochemically assisted-scrubbing process for
environmental harmful pollutant’s destruction. J Ind Eng Chem 18:1540–1550
Namdari P, Negahdari B, Eatemadi A (2017) Synthesis, properties and biomedical applications of
carbon-based quantum dots: an updated review. Biomed Pharmacother 87:209–222
Natrajan S, Bajaj HC, Tayade RJ (2018) Recent advances based on the synergetic effect of
adsorption for removal of dyes from waste water using photocatalytic process. J Environ Sci
65:201–222
Nehila BJ, Allen PG, Desai TA (2008) Surfactant-free, drug-quantum-dot coloaded poly(lactide-coglycolide) nanoparticles: towards multifunctional nanoparticles. ACS Nano 2:538–544
Pal T, Mohiyuddin S, Packirisamy G (2018) Facile and green synthesis of multicolor fluorescence
carbon dots from curcumin: in vitro and in vivo bioimaging and other applications. ACS Omega
3:831–843
Peng Z, Han X, Li S, Al-Youbi OA, Bashammakh AS, El-Shahawi MS, Leblanc RM (2017)
Carbon dots: biomacromolecule interaction, bioimaging and nanomedicine. Coord Chem Rev
343:256–277
Peng D, Zhang L, Li FF, Cui WR, Liang RP, Qiu JD (2018) Facile and green approach to the
synthesis of boron nitride quantum dots for 2,4,6-Trinitrophenol sensing. ACS Appl Mater
Interfaces 10:7315–7323
Pramanik S, Chatterjee S, Kumar GS, Devi PS (2018) Egg-shell derived carbon dots for base pair
selective DNA binding and recognition. Phys Chem Chem Phys 20:20476–20488
Praneerad J, Thongsai N, Supchocksoonthorn P, Kladsomboon S, Paoprasert P (2019) Multipurpose sensing applications of biocompatible radish-derived carbon dots as Cu
2+ and acetic acid
vapor sensors. Spectrochim Acta Pt A 211:59–70
Prasannan A, Imae T (2013) One-pot synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots from Orange waste. Ind
Eng Chem Res 52:15673–15678
Qin J, Zhang L, Yang R (2019) Powder carbonization to synthesize novel carbon dots derived from
uric acid for the detection of Ag(I) and glutathione. Spectrochim Acta Pt A 207:54–60
Raman CD, Kanmani S (2016) Textile dye degradation using nano zero valent iron: a review. J
Environ Manage 177:341–355
Ramanan V, Siddaiah B, Raji K, Ramamurthy P (2018) Green synthesis of multifunctionalized,
nitrogen-doped, highly fluorescent carbon dots from waste expanded polystyrene and its
application in the fluorimetric detection of Au3+ ions in aqueous media. ACS Sustain Chem
Eng 2018(6):1627–1638
Ren G, Tang M, Chai F, Wu H (2018) One-pot synthesis of highly fluorescent carbon dots from
spinach and multipurpose applications. Eur J Inorg Chem 2018:153–158
Ridha AA, Pakravan P, Azandaryani AH, Zhaleh H (2019) Carbon dots; the smallest
photoresponsive structure of carbon in advanced drug targeting. J Drug Del Sci Technol
19:31163–31166
Sahoo NK, Jana GC, Aktara MN, Das S, Nayim S, Patra A, Bhattacharjee P, Bhadra K, Hossain M
(2019) Carbon dots derived from lychee waste: application for Fe
3+ ions sensing in real water
and multicolor cell imaging of skin melanoma cells. Mater Sci Eng C 19:32738–32749
Sansuk S, Srijaranai S, Srijaranai S (2016) A new approach for removing anionic organic dyes from
wastewater based on electrostatically driven assembly. Environ Sci Technol 50:6477–6484
188
S. Chaudhary and P. Chauhan