Bottom-up carbon dots: purification, single-particle dynamics, and electronic structure

Chem. Sci., 2025, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05843G, Review Article Zhengyi Bian, Eric Gomez, Martin Gruebele, Benjamin G. Levine, Stephan Link, Arshad Mehmood, Shuming Nie For carbon dots, careful purification and electronic structure calculations facilitate learning about the origin of optical properties.