Carbon dots in bioimaging, biosensing and therapeutics: a comprehensive review

B Wang, H Cai, GIN Waterhouse, X Qu, B Yang… - Small …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs), comprising crystalline graphitized carbon cores and polymer surface
groups, are currently attracting a lot of interest in biological fields owing to their fluorescent …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon quantum dots: Preparation, optical properties, and biomedical applications

HL Yang, LF Bai, ZR Geng, H Chen, LT Xu… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
As an excellent fluorescent nanomaterial, carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have the properties
of small molecular weight, small particle size, high fluorescence stability, no optical flicker …

Carbon dots based on natural resources: Synthesis and applications in sensors

X Lin, M Xiong, J Zhang, C He, X Ma, H Zhang… - Microchemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
As a new “zero-dimensional” carbon nanomaterial, carbon dots (CDs) have a wide range of
applications in the fields of biology, chemistry, food science, and energy, which are ascribed …

Construction of biomass carbon dots based fluorescence sensors and their applications in chemical and biological analysis

H Liu, J Ding, K Zhang, L Ding - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Photoluminescence carbon dots (CDs) have chemical stability, water dispersibility and
biocompatibility. Although various methods have been used to synthesize CDs, green …

Syntheses of N-doped carbon quantum dots (NCQDs) from bioderived precursors: a timely update

SA Shaik, S Sengupta, RS Varma… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The emergence of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) opens up new opportunities in different
branches of science and technology primarily because of their conducive biocompatibility …

High-quality quantum dots for multiplexed bioimaging: A critical review

S Pandey, D Bodas - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Bioimaging done using two or more fluorophores possessing different emission
wavelengths can be termed as a multicolor/multiplexed bioimaging technique. Traditionally …

Progress in drug delivery and diagnostic applications of carbon dots: a systematic review

H Kaurav, D Verma, A Bansal, DN Kapoor… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Carbon dots (CDs), which have particle size of less than 10 nm, are carbon-based
nanomaterials that are used in a wide range of applications in the area of novel drug …

Preparation of N-doped yellow carbon dots and N, P co-doped red carbon dots for bioimaging and photodynamic therapy of tumors

J Zhao, F Li, S Zhang, Y An, S Sun - New Journal of Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Red emissive carbon dots (CDs) have attracted more and more attention in biological fields,
due to less interference from autofluorescence of the biological matrix and lower …

Green synthesis of multifunctional carbon quantum dots: An approach in cancer theranostics

JP Malavika, C Shobana, S Sundarraj… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have gained significant growing attention in the recent past
due to their peculiar characteristics including smaller size, high surface area …

Fluorescent carbon dots for selective labeling of subcellular organelles

B Unnikrishnan, RS Wu, SC Wei, CC Huang… - Acs Omega, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the recent advancement in understanding and control of the structure and optical
properties of fluorescent carbon dots (CDs), they have been shown to be valuable in …