TY - RPRT TI - Bottom-up carbon dots: purification, single-particle dynamics, and electronic structure AU - Bian, Zhengyi [Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA] AU - Gomez, Eric [Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA] AU - Gruebele, Martin [Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Carle-Illinois College of Medicine University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA] (ORCID:0000000192918123) AU - Levine, Benjamin G. [Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA] (ORCID:0000000203560738) AU - Link, Stephan [Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA] (ORCID:000000024781930X) AU - Mehmood, Arshad [Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA] (ORCID:0000000178193648) AU - Nie, Shuming [Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA] (ORCID:0000000273281144) PY - 2025 DO - 10.1039/d4sc05843g UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2519048 ID - 2519048 ER -