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Carbon Quantum Dots for Sustainable Energy and Optoelectronics

  • 1st Edition - January 14, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sudip Kumar Batabyal, Basudev Pradhan, Kallol Mohanta, Rama Ranjan Bhattacharjee, Amit Banerjee
  • Language: English

Carbon Quantum Dots for Sustainable Energy and Optoelectronics reviews the synthesis, properties, and applications of carbon nanodots. This book provides readers with an overview… Read more

Description

Carbon Quantum Dots for Sustainable Energy and Optoelectronics reviews the synthesis, properties, and applications of carbon nanodots. This book provides readers with an overview of the key advances in the development of carbon quantum dots including synthesis and surface engineering strategies such as pyrolysis-based synthesis, biomass-based synthesis, functionalization, and other methods toward large-scale development of these carbon nanomaterials. The emerging applications of carbon quantum dots in different fields, such as energy harvesting, energy storage, and biomedical applications, are thoroughly reviewed, emphasizing the impact of enhanced properties of carbon quantum dots for these applications.

Carbon Quantum Dots for Sustainable Energy and Optoelectronics is suitable for graduate students, materials scientists, and engineers working in academia and industry. This book is also beneficial for the interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners working in the field of nanotechnology.

Key features

  • Introduces recent advances in the understanding of carbon quantum dots, including relevant synthesis and surface engineering strategies for their large-scale development
  • Provides an overview of the most relevant applications of carbon quantum dots for the development of sustainable technologies in optoelectronics and energy storage and production
  • Discusses future research directions and remaining challenges towards the commercial translation of carbon quantum dots

Readership

Materials Scientists, Engineers and Physical Chemists

Table of contents

1 Photophysical properties of carbon quantum dots

2 The physical and chemical properties of carbon dots via computational modeling

3 Synthesis of carbon quantum dots

4 Characterization and physical properties of carbon quantum dots

5 Surface engineering of carbon quantum dots

6 Photodetector applications of carbon and graphene quantum dots

7 Photovoltaic application of carbon quantum dots

8 Light-emitting diode application of carbon quantum dots

9 Nanoelectronic applications of carbon quantum dots

10 Carbon quantum dot-based nanosensors

11 Carbon dots: biomedical applications

12 Bioimaging applications of carbon quantum dots

13 Photocatalytic applications of carbon quantum dots for wastewater treatment

14 Current prospects of carbon-based nanodots in photocatalytic CO2 conversion

15 Carbon quantum dots and its composites for electrochemical energy storage applications

16 Magnetic and nanophotonics applications of carbon quantum dots

17 Carbon quantum dots: An overview and potential applications in terahertz domain

18 Nanocarbon-based single-electron transistors as electrometer

19 Nanodiamonds for advanced photonic and biomedical applications

20 Future perspectives of carbon quantum dots

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 14, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

SB

Sudip Kumar Batabyal

Dr. Sudip Kumar Batabyal is an associate professor in the Department of Science and senior research scientist in the ACIRI, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate professor in the Department of Science and Senior Research scientist in ACIRI, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India

BP

Basudev Pradhan

Dr. Basudev Pradhan is an assistant professor at the Department of Energy Engineering, Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Green and Efficient Energy Technology (GEET), Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy Engineering, and Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Green and Efficient Energy Technology (GEET) at the Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

KM

Kallol Mohanta

Dr. Kallol Mohanta is an assistant professor at the PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistan Professor, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies at Coimbatore, India

RB

Rama Ranjan Bhattacharjee

Dr. Rama Ranjan Bhattacharjee is an associate professor and head of the department at the Amity Institute of Nanotechnology and also a university research coordinator in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor and Head, Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University in Kolkata, India

AB

Amit Banerjee

Dr. Amit Banerjee is an assistant professor and group leader at the Microsystem Design-Integration Lab, Physics Department, Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol, West Bengal, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant professor and group leader, Microsystem Design-Integration Lab, Physics Department, Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol, West Bengal, India.

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