[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 …

The function-oriented precursor selection for the preparation of carbon dots

Y Xu, C Wang, H Zhuo, D Zhou, Q Song - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
As a new type of fluorescent nanomaterials, carbon dots (CDs) have exhibited excellent
photoluminescence properties with tunable emission and high quantum yields, hence they …

Aggregation-induced color fine-tunable carbon dot phosphorescence covering from green to near-infrared for advanced information encryption

Q Li, D Cheng, H Gu, D Yang, Y Li, S Meng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-color phosphorescence carbon dots (CDs) show enormous potential in advanced
information encryption, yet the achievement of wide-range, fine-tunable phosphorescence …

One-step large-scale fabricating aggregation-induced emission carbon dots with strong solid-state fluorescence emission

J Li, X Gong - Materials Today Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) possessing favorable stability and optical properties have attracted
extensive attention for their potential application in solid-state light-emitting devices …

Carbon nanodots constructed by ginsenosides and their high inhibitory effect on neuroblastoma

Y Jiang, L Xiao, J Wang, T Tian, G Liu, Y Zhao… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Neuroblastoma is one of the common extracranial tumors in children (infants to
2 years), accounting for 8~ 10% of all malignant tumors. Few special drugs have been used …

Mechanisms of radical formation on chemically modified graphene oxide under near infrared irradiation

L Jacquemin, Z Song, N Le Breton, Y Nishina, S Choua… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, the mechanisms of radical generation on different functionalized graphene
oxide (GO) conjugates under near‐infrared (NIR) light irradiation are investigated. The GO …

Engineered DNA-copper double-modified NIR carbon nanodots as oxidative stress amplifier for targeted intracellular production of reactive oxygen species

DK Ji, R Zhang, A Bianco - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Regulating redox homeostasis is an advanced and efficient approach for cancer treatment.
Well-designed catalytic drugs, which can catalytic generation of reactive oxygen species …

Recent advances of photoactive near-infrared carbon dots in cancer photodynamic therapy

J Song, X Gao, M Yang, W Hao, DK Ji - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment that employs exogenously produced reactive
oxygen species (ROS) to kill cancer cells. ROS are generated from the interaction of excited …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dots conjugated to SN38 for improved colorectal anticancer therapy

D Mattinzoli, M Cacioppo, M Ikehata, S Armelloni… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Irinotecan (CTP-11) is one of the standard therapies for colorectal cancer (CRC).
CTP-11 is enzymatically converted to the hydrophobic 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin …

Recent Progress on Second Near-Infrared Emitting Carbon Dots in Biomedicine

M Yang, Y Han, A Bianco, DK Ji - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Second near-infrared (NIR-II) carbon dots, with absorption or emission between 1000 and
1700 nm, are gaining increasing attention in the biomaterial field due to their distinctive …