Carbon dots (CDs) are widely used in biomedical imaging and cancer therapy due to their
excellent water solubility, low toxicity, satisfying biocompatibility, and good tissue …

The great promise of photodynamic therapy (PDT) has thrusted the rapid progress of
developing highly effective photosensitizers (PS) in killing cancerous cells and bacteria. To …

Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in preclinical and clinical …

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 …

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 …

Elucidating the intrinsic relationship between disease and mitochondrial viscosity is great
significance for understanding the diagnosis and treatment of fatty liver, inflammation and …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are prominent
metabolic products which show well-established significance. At relatively low …

In this study, the reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging or generation ability of the
carbon dots (CDs) was regulated by incorporating with heteroatoms (Cu and Cl ions). The …

Since 2016, the editors of Carbon have published a biennial Perspectives article where
selected topics are discussed regarding current developments in carbon material research …

As a multifunctional fluorescent nanomaterial, carbon dots (CDs) not only have small size,
stable chemical properties, excellent photoluminescence characteristics, but also exhibit …