Characterization of food waste-driven carbon dot focusing on chemical structural, electron relaxation behavior and Fe3+ selective sensing

. 2019 May 23;25:104038. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104038

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Subject area	Physics, Chemistry, Material science
More specific subject area	Photoluminescence, Carbon-based Nanomaterial,
Type of data	Table, figure, graph, image
How data was acquired	XPS (K-alpha, Thermo Scientific), TCSPC (Fluo Time 200 instrument, Picoquant), Digital camera (G10, Canon), PL spectrometer (FS-2, SICNCO), UV spectrometer (Cary 60 UV/vis spectrophotometer, Agilent Technologies)
Data format	Raw, analyzed
Experimental factors	Carbon dots were synthesized using food wastes via one-step hydrothermal carbonization
Experimental features	Food waste-driven carbon dots were characterized with XPS, TCSPC, PL and UV spectrometer
Data source location	Seoul, Republic of Korea
Data accessibility	Physics, Chemistry, Material science
Related research article	J. Ahn, Y. Song, J. E. Kwon, S. H. Lee, K. S. Park, S. Kim, J. Woo and H. Kim, Food waste-driven N-doped carbon dots: Applications for Fe³⁺sensing and cell imaging, Materials Science & Engineering C 102 (2019) 106–112.