Adsorption of heavy metal onto biomass-derived activated carbon

B Wang, J Lan, C Bo, B Gong, J Ou - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to the rapid development of the social economy and the massive increase in
population, human beings continue to undertake processing, and commercial manufacturing …

Functionalized nanomaterials capable of crossing the blood–brain barrier

S Zha, H Liu, H Li, H Li, KL Wong, AH All - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a specialized semipermeable structure that highly
regulates exchanges between the central nervous system parenchyma and blood vessels …

Oriented anchoring of NCQD on citric acid defective cluster of NH2-MIL-88B (Fe) for the efficient removal of tetracycline via photo-Fenton catalysis

J Bao, H Zhang, Y Muhammad, H Wei, R Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Surface modification and material composition are promising strategies for metal organic
framework (MOF) to achieve excellent organic pollutant degradation performance. However …

Nano-carrier for gene delivery and bioimaging based on pentaetheylenehexamine modified carbon dots

W Zhang, J Chen, J Gu, M Bartoli, JB Domena… - Journal of colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted much attention due to their excellent properties and
applications, especially the use for gene delivery. Considering the risks and concerns …

A multifunctional nanocatalyst based on ultra-fluorescent carbon quantum dots for cascade enzymatic activity and stimuli-responsive chemotherapy of cancer

A Wibrianto, G Getachew, WB Dirersa, AS Rasal… - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Clinical studies have switched from monotherapy to multimodal therapy due to the intricacy,
multiplicity, and unpredictability of malignant tumors. In this work, we report one-pot …

Computational insights into carbon dots: Evolution of structural models and structure–activity relationships

X Zhao, J Wei, T Song, Z Wang, D Yang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
As researchers have gained a deeper insight into the properties of carbon dots (CDs), their
applications gradually spanned from fluorescent probing and bio-imaging to energy storage …

Structure–property–activity relationships in carbon dots

Y Zhou, W Zhang, RM Leblanc - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots (CDs) are one of the most versatile nanomaterials discovered in the 21st
century. They possess many properties and thus hold potentials in diverse applications …

Advancing glioblastoma imaging: Exploring the potential of organic fluorophore-based red emissive carbon dots

JB Domena, BCLB Ferreira, EK Cilingir, Y Zhou… - Journal of colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over time, the interest in developing stable photosensitizers (PS) which both absorb and
emit light in the red region (650 and 950 nm) has gained noticeable interest. Recently …

Hydrothermal vs microwave nanoarchitechtonics of carbon dots significantly affects the structure, physicochemical properties, and anti-cancer activity against a …

ES Seven, EK Cilingir, M Bartoli, Y Zhou… - Journal of colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) from glucose were synthesized using two of the most common bottom-up
methods, namely, microwave assisted (MW) and hydrothermal carbonization (HT). Synthetic …

Efficient removal of phosphate from wastewater by a novel phyto-graphene composite derived from palm byproducts

N El-Maghrabi, M Fawzy, AED Mahmoud - ACS omega, 2022 - ACS Publications
The increased demand for clean water especially in overpopulated countries is of great
concern; thus, the development of eco-friendly and cost-effective techniques and materials …