Bamboo Kraft Pulp Black Liquor as a Renewable Source of Value-Added Carbon Dots
Xiaolong Qiao, Shixing Wang, Qiulian Liu, Yuanming Zhang, Guangting Han, Haoxi Ben, Wei Jiang, Haiguang Zhao, Yan Song, Marco Cannas · 2024
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Xiaolong Qiao and co-authors turn bamboo pulp waste into glowing carbon dots. Their 2024 paper starts from black liquor, the dark waste liquid of bamboo pulping in China. The liquor is rich in sugars and lignin that usually go to waste, so finding value in it has clear gains.
Heating the liquor in water produced tiny carbon dots that glow blue-green under light. The team tracked how sugar content in the liquor changed with heat and time. One recipe gave dots whose glow color shifts with the light used to excite them. Those dots were used to print a security code that stayed clear and stable. The work links forest protection, waste use, and anti-counterfeit printing in one chain.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiaolong Qiao, Shixing Wang, Qiulian Liu, Yuanming Zhang, Guangting Han, Haoxi Ben, Wei Jiang, Haiguang Zhao, Yan Song, Marco Cannas |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |