Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles: mimicking hydrogen peroxide properties in a chemiluminescence system

Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles (FCNs), as novel luminescent reagents exhibiting hydrogen peroxide mimicking properties, can directly react with luminol, NaHCO3 and NaHSO3 in alkaline conditions to yield novel chemiluminescence, and show great potential towards further applications of ultra-weak chemiluminescence.