Amorphous Carbon Dots and their Remarkable Ability to Detect 2,4,6-Trinitrophenol.

Apparently mundane, amorphous nanostructures of carbon have optical properties which are as exotic as their crystalline counterparts. In this work we demonstrate a simple and inexpensive mechano-chemical method to prepare bulk quantities of self-passivated, amorphous carbon dots. Like the graphene q... View More