Carbon Dot‐Based Hydrogels: Preparations, Properties, and Applications (Small 17/2023)

Carbon Dot-Based Hydrogels The features of article number 2207048 by Xiaofeng Sun, Jin Zhou, Hongguang Li, and co-workers include i) preparations of carbon dot (CD)-based hydrogels, including CDs/polymers, CDs/low molecular weight gelators, CDs/graphene oxide, CDs/metal ions and derivatives of CD-based hydrogels, ii) properties of CD-based hydrogels, such as fluorescence, mechanical strength enhancement, self-healing, and stimulus response, iii) applications of CD-based hydrogels in biomedicine, sensing, adsorption, energy storage and catalysis.