Carbon dots: types, preparation, and their boosted antibacterial activity by photoactivation. Current status and future perspectives

KJ Lagos, D García, CF Cuadrado… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) correspond to carbon‐based materials (CBM) with sizes usually below
10 nm. These nanomaterials exhibit attractive properties such us low toxicity, good stability …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor diagnosis using carbon-based quantum dots: Detection based on the hallmarks of cancer

H Wang, S Yang, L Chen, Y Li, P He, G Wang, H Dong… - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon-based quantum dots (CQDs) have been shown to have promising application value
in tumor diagnosis. Their use, however, is severely hindered by the complicated nature of …

Synthesis of N-doped carbon quantum dots from bio-waste lignin for selective irons detection and cellular imaging

Y Shi, X Liu, M Wang, J Huang, X Jiang, J Pang… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Facile synthesis of carbon quantum dots with high fluorescence and excellent
biocompatibility from plentiful and biocompatible materials still attracts much attention …

Lignin derived reduced fluorescence carbon dots with theranostic approaches: nano-drug-carrier and bioimaging

S Rai, BK Singh, P Bhartiya, A Singh, H Kumar… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This is the first study on synthesis of water-soluble reduced fluorescent carbon dots (r-FCDs)
by using lignosulfonate lignin as carbon source. The resulted r-FCDs have been employed …

In-situ synthesis of ionic liquid-based-carbon quantum dots as fluorescence probe for hemoglobin detection

N Yadav, D Mudgal, V Mishra - Analytica chimica acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have emerged as a potential fluorescent probe in
bio/analytical chemistry in the present decade. The optical characteristics of CQDs may be …

Milk-derived multi-fluorescent graphene quantum dot-based cancer theranostic system

M Thakur, A Mewada, S Pandey, M Bhori… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
An economical green-chemistry approach was used for the synthesis of aqueous soluble
graphene quantum dots (GQDs) from cow milk for simultaneous imaging and drug delivery …

Self-assembly of 3D MnO2/N-doped graphene hybrid aerogel for catalytic degradation of water pollutants: Structure-dependent activity

Q Dong, J Wang, X Duan, X Tan, S Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel hybrid architecture of 3D MnO 2 nanosheet/N-doped graphene aerogel (S-MnO
2/NGA) was controllably fabricated by a facile hydrothermal process and applied in …

Mass production of tunable multicolor graphene quantum dots from an energy resource of coke by a one-step electrochemical exfoliation

M He, X Guo, J Huang, H Shen, Q Zeng, L Wang - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Herein, we originally propose a simple and facile one-step electrochemical exfoliation
approach to synthesize in large scale graphene quantum dots (GQDs) from low-cost energy …

Photocatalytic hydrogen generation coupled to pollutant utilisation using carbon dots produced from biomass

DS Achilleos, H Kasap, E Reisner - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalysis is deemed as an appealing strategy to exploit solar energy for simultaneous
fuel production and pollutant utilisation. However, current photocatalytic systems rarely …

Carbon dots assisted formation of DNA hydrogel for sustained release of drug

S Singh, A Mishra, R Kumari, KK Sinha, MK Singh… - Carbon, 2017 - Elsevier
The construction of DNA-carbon dot (CD) hybrid hydrogel for targeted and sustained release
of drug molecules is reported here. Amine functionalized carbon dots were conjugated to …