MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411028505 A) filed by Shoolini University Of Biotechnology And Management Sciences, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, on April 8, 2024, for 'luminescent carbon dots from rhododendron arboreum blossoms.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Saima; Hemant Singh; Varun Aggarwal; Ekta Bala; Ankit Kachore; and Dr. Praveen Kumar Verma.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This study presents a novel approach for synthesizing highly fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) using Rhododendron arboretum flowers via a green and facile protocol. The presence of heteroatoms, ...