Researchers transform tomatoes into fluorescent carbon dots
(PHYSorg.com Nanotechnology)

(Phys.org)-Researchers have shown that tomato pulp dissolved in water can eventually be turned into a powder of nanoparticles containing carbon dots with diameters of less than 5 nm. Like all carbon dots, one of the main characteristics of the tomato-sourced carbon dots is an intense fluorescence, which may lead to applications in imaging and sensing.