Carbon dots as a new class of nanomedicines: opportunities and challenges

B Wang, H Song, X Qu, J Chang, B Yang… - Coordination chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in preclinical and clinical …

Optical properties of carbon dots in the deep‐red to near‐infrared region are attractive for biomedical applications

D Li, EV Ushakova, AL Rogach, S Qu - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) represent a recently emerged class of luminescent materials with a great
potential for biomedical theranostics, and there are a lot of efforts to shift their absorption and …

Biocompatible carbon quantum dots for intelligent sensing in food safety applications: opportunities and sustainability

A Khan, P Ezati, JT Kim, JW Rhim - Materials Today Sustainability, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are widely used in various industries due to their non-toxic,
biocompatibility, antibacterial, and tunable photoluminescence properties. In particular …

Recent advances in near-infrared emitting lanthanide-doped nanoconstructs: Mechanism, design and application for bioimaging

J Xu, A Gulzar, P Yang, H Bi, D Yang, S Gai… - Coordination chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lanthanide-doped nanoconstructs (LDNCs) have been widely studied in the biomedical
field. Especially, LDNCs with near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence show great promise in …

Fluorescent carbon dots functionalization

BB Chen, ML Liu, CM Li, CZ Huang - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs), as a new type of luminescent zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterial,
have been applied in a variety of fields. Currently, functionalization of CDs is an extremely …

Doped-carbon dots: Recent advances in their biosensing, bioimaging and therapy applications

L Ansari, S Hallaj, T Hallaj, M Amjadi - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
As a fascinating class of fluorescent carbon dots (CDs), doped-CDs are now sparked
intense research interest, particularly in the diverse fields of biomedical applications due to …

Perspectives of magnetic nature carbon dots in analytical chemistry: From separation to detection and bioimaging

SK Kailasa, JR Koduru - Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Magnetic nature carbon dots (MNCDs) are fast growing materials with extremely unique
physico-chemical properties and physiological ability to extend their applications from …

Cobalt-doped carbon quantum dots with peroxidase-mimetic activity for ascorbic acid detection through both fluorometric and colorimetric methods

C Li, J Zeng, D Guo, L Liu, L Xiong, X Luo… - … applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we fabricated cobalt-doped carbon quantum dots (Co-CQDs) by a one-pot
hydrothermal method with cobalt tetraphenylporphyrin and 1, 2-ethanediamine as …

Doping and surface modification of carbon quantum dots for enhanced functionalities and related applications

VL John, Y Nair, TP Vinod - Particle & Particle Systems …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a unique class of 0D nanomaterials, featured by a
graphitic core and shell layers saturated with hydrogen atoms and functional groups. CQDs …

Facile synthesis of red-emitting carbon dots from pulp-free lemon juice for bioimaging

H Ding, Y Ji, JS Wei, QY Gao, ZY Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, red-emitting carbon dots (R-CDs) with a high quantum yield (QY) of 28% in
water were synthesized for the first time by heating an ethanol solution of pulp-free lemon …