Abstract As one of important approaches of light emission, chemiluminescence (CL) induced by chemical reactions has evoked considerable interest for its potential applications in chemical detection, bioanalysis, and cold light source. Carbon dots (CDs) are one kind of emerging carbon nanomaterials for promising CL due to their unique luminescent properties, such as high fluorescence quantum yield, tunable emission wavelength, high photostability, etc. With the special physicochemical property, CDs can take part in the CL reaction as oxidants, emitting species, energy acceptors of chemical reaction energy or even catalysis involving in different CL systems. With these novel influences in CL reaction, these CD-related CL systems have been applied in a broad range of areas. For the reason, CL CDs and their applications such as CL emitting species, catalyst, sensor, information encryption, photodynamic therapy and in-vitro and in-vivo bioimaging/biosensor are reviewed and discussed in this paper. Meanwhile, the challenges and future prospects of the CL CDs have been discussed and proposed.

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化学发光碳点：合成、性质和应用

摘要 作为发光的重要途径之一，由化学反应引起的化学发光（CL）因其在化学检测、生物分析和冷光源等方面的潜在应用而引起了广泛的关注。碳点（CDs）由于其独特的发光特性，如高荧光量子产率、可调发射波长、高光稳定性等，是一种新兴的有前途的碳纳米材料，具有特殊的物理化学性质，可以参与CL反应作为氧化剂、发射物种、化学反应能量的能量受体甚至催化参与不同的CL系统。由于这些对 CL 反应的新影响，这些与 CD 相关的 CL 系统已应用于广泛的领域。出于这个原因，CL CD 及其应用，例如 CL 发射物种，本文综述和讨论了催化剂、传感器、信息加密、光动力疗法以及体外和体内生物成像/生物传感器。同时，讨论并提出了CL CD的挑战和未来前景。