Nanomaterials: A review of synthesis methods, properties, recent progress, and challenges

N Baig, I Kammakakam, W Falath - Materials advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanomaterials have emerged as an amazing class of materials that consists of a broad
spectrum of examples with at least one dimension in the range of 1 to 100 nm. Exceptionally …

Carbon quantum dots for biomedical applications: review and analysis

N Azam, M Najabat Ali, T Javaid Khan - Frontiers in Materials, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a new type of nano-carbons that are currently favored
over semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) because of their solubility, low toxicity, eco …

Carbon-Dots-Initiated Photopolymerization: An In Situ Synthetic Approach for MXene/Poly(norepinephrine)/Copper Hybrid and its Application for Mitigating Water …

P Das, S Ganguly, A Saha, M Noked… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The current work presents a facile and green synthesis of carbon quantum dots (C-dots),
which could serve as initiators for polymerization. Herein, C-dots have been synthesized …

Sunlight-driven photocatalytic degradation of ciprofloxacin by carbon dots embedded in ZnO nanostructures

I Mukherjee, V Cilamkoti, RK Dutta - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
Surface modification of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) is considered as a key for enhanced
sustained generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the reaction medium for improving …

Recent advances in the modification of carbon-based quantum dots for biomedical applications

A Alaghmandfard, O Sedighi, NT Rezaei… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon-based quantum dots (CDs) are mainly divided into two sub-groups; carbon quantum
dots (CQDs) and graphene quantum dots (GQDs), which exhibit outstanding …

2D MXene nanomaterials for versatile biomedical applications: current trends and future prospects

B Lu, Z Zhu, B Ma, W Wang, R Zhu, J Zhang - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research on 2D nanomaterials is still in its early stages. Most studies have focused on
elucidating the unique properties of the materials, whereas only few reports have described …

Rational design, synthesis, and applications of carbon dots@ metal–organic frameworks (CD@ MOF) based sensors

B Li, T Suo, S Xie, A Xia, Y Ma, H Huang… - TrAC Trends in …, 2021 - Elsevier
As promising sensory materials, metal–organic frameworks have been extensively studied;
however, the development of fluorescent MOFs relies heavily on the complex organic …

Carbon dots for cancer nanomedicine: a bright future

S Bayda, E Amadio, S Cailotto, Y Frión-Herrera… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer remains one of the main causes of death in the world. Early diagnosis and effective
cancer therapies are required to treat this pathology. Traditional therapeutic approaches are …

Inhibition of oxidative stress in vivo through enzyme-like activity of carbon dots

C Dong, S Wang, M Ma, P Wei, Y Chen, A Wu… - Applied Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Oxidative stress is a huge challenge to human health, and effective agents for resisting this
adverse effect are remains limited recently. Here, an excellent enzyme-like activity of carbon …

Phosphorescent carbon dots: Microstructure design, synthesis and applications

H Kang, J Zheng, X Liu, Y Yang - New Carbon Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Phosphorescent carbon dots (CDs) have great potential in energy, information, biomedicine,
and other fields because of their long lifetime, long wavelength emission, and low …