“…Carbon nanomaterials, such as fullerene, graphene, graphdiyne and carbon nanotubes, have aroused much interest from scientists in recent years because of their distinctive structures as well as splendid electronic, optical and thermal performance 1‐3 . Carbon dots (CDs), as a kind of emerging carbon nanomaterials, which can be classified into carbonized polymer dots (CPDs), carbon quantum dots, carbon nanodots and graphene quantum dots, not only have the same fluorescence property as semiconductor quantum dots but also show many unique advantages including low toxicity, biocompatibility, chemical inertness, photostability and low cost 4‐6 . Consequently, CDs have been extensively studied and employed in many important fields like bioimaging, 7 photocatalysis, 8 electrocatalysis, 9 detection 10 and sensing 11 during the past decade.…”