Radiation chemical approach to synthesis of luminescent semiconductor nanoparticles with some salient properties and applications of biological relevance: a review
摘要
Photoluminescent semiconductor nanomaterials (NMs) have garnered significant interest owing to their distinctive size-dependent optical and electronic features, making them exceptionally suitable for various applications in the biological fields. There is a long-standing interest in radiation-based methods for synthesizing important nanomaterials having great potential in different applications by optimizing easy-to-control parameters, like radiation dose, dose rate, medium, precursor concentration, and encapsulating groups. Radiation chemical route has been successfully applied in synthesis of a variety semiconductor nanoparticles (NPs) under the categories of Group II-VI, IV-VI, III-VI, I-VII and among these, Gr. II-VI have drawn major attraction like in conventional methods. The objective of this article is to provide a review on developments in fabricating luminescent water-soluble semiconductor nanostructured materials, including zero-dimensional carbon dots and modified graphene quantum dots, primarily through gamma irradiation route and put forward some salient applications of synthesized materials in different areas of biological relevance, including sensing and catalysis. This review has also noted limitations and potential future possibilities of the radiation-based approach.
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