Dr. Poushali Das is a senior research scientist at the Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada. Before this, she held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She completed her Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. She has received prestigious awards including the DST INSPIRE Scholar Award (Government of India), Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Award (European Commission), and H.G. Thode Postdoctoral Fellowship (Canada). Her research interests include multifunctional luminescent quantum dots and applications in sensors, biomedical fields, smart nanocomposites, polymer nanocomposites, etc. Andreas Rosenkranz is a Professor for Material-Oriented Tribology and New 2D Materials at the University of Chile. His research focuses on the characterization, chemical functionalization, and application of 2D materials. Dr. Sayan Ganguly is working in the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He obtained his B.Sc degree in Chemistry (Honours) at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, University of Calcutta; and then his B.Tech in 2012 (University of Calcutta). After that, he then went on to obtain his M.Tech from the University of Calcutta in polymer science and technology. His primary research interests include superabsorbent hydrogels, fluorescence in hydrogels, nanomaterials in hydrogels, and hydrogels in the biomedical fields.

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• 1 Introduction to MXenes and MXene quantum dots2 Design and synthesis, surface functionalization, and heteroatom doping of MXene quantum dots3 Fabrication of MXene quantum dot–based composites4 Characterization techniques and properties of the MXene quantum dots5 Applications of MXene quantum dots in sensing6 Applications of MXene quantum dots in catalysis7 Applications of MXene quantum dots in optoelectronics8 Applications of MXene quantum dots in energy conversion9 Applications of MXene quantum dots in energy storage10 Applications of MXene quantum dots in bioimaging and nanomedicine11 MXene quantum dots for biomedical application12 Toxicity and safety of MXene quantum dots13 Computational and machine learning studies on MXene quantum dots14 Challenges and future perspective in MXene quantum dot research