Nanosynthesis by candlelight

A Review of Terminology Used to Describe Soot Formation and Evolution under Combustion and Pyrolytic Conditions

“…73,242,387 Carbon nanoparticles (CNPs): The expression "carbon nanoparticles (CNPs)" is usually used to represent deliberately synthesized nanometer-scaled carbonaceous particles, including fullerenes, single-and multi-walled carbon nanotubes, and quantum dots. 82,[388][389][390][391][392] Aerosol: An aerosol is an ensemble of liquid and/or solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium, 92,305 whereas an aerosol particle is a single particle in an ensemble of suspended particles. 305 Smoke: Smoke is a suspension of combustion-generated particles that is concentrated enough to be visible to the naked eye.…”

One-step, green, and economic synthesis of water-soluble photoluminescent carbon dots by hydrothermal treatment of wheat straw, and their bio-applications in labeling, imaging, and sensing

“…A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 6 Despite of their unique optical characteristics and wide applications, the easily synthesizing from most of carbon-containing substances make us think out a "One Stone Two Birds" strategy for not only make best use of agricultural straw, but also to develop a new facile, green, economic and one-pot synthesis method for mass yield photoluminescent C-dots for nanobiomedical applications. To this end, here in this paper, we take wheat straw as a model biowaste (which has a lower feed-value than barley or oat straw) for high-yielded producing biocompatible C-dots, which are further discussed and experimentally demonstrated the wide and potential applications to bio-medically labelling, imaging and sensing/detecting.…”

“…Since their first being found by Scrivens and co-workers in 2004 [5] , carbon dots (C-dots) have attracted increasing attention of researchers not only due to their unique combination of bright photoluminescence (PL), high aqueous solubility, easy functionalization, low toxicity, high photostability [6][7][8] , but also because of their simple syntheses [9] achievable by many approaches from a variety of starting materials, such as simple burning [10] or microwave heating [11] of organic matter [12] and even from waste natural products like coffee grounds [13] and soy milk [14] .…”

Candle Soot Coating for Latent Fingermark Enhancement on Various Surfaces

“…In 2012, Vollmer et al characterized the structure and super-hydrophobicity behavior of candle soot film, which was composed of regular carbon nanoparticles (20–50 nm) [ 27 ]. Moreover, the carbon nanoparticles in candle soot have excellent optical properties and the structural and better quality of graphitization in the candle soot mean that it has great potential as a material for various applications [ 28 , 29 , 30 ].…”