Biomass-based carbon dots: current development and future perspectives

TC Wareing, P Gentile, AN Phan - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots have been considered as a solution to the challenges that semiconductor
quantum dots have encountered because they are more biocompatible and can be …

Green synthesis of carbon quantum dots and their environmental applications

V Manikandan, NY Lee - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Green synthesis of scalable, high-quality, fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) from
natural biomass remains attractive due to their outstanding environmental application. CQDs …

Fluorescence sensing and imaging with carbon-based quantum dots for early diagnosis of cancer: A review

R Mohammadi, H Naderi-Manesh, L Farzin… - … of Pharmaceutical and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review discusses recent advances and the reported strategies over the last ten years on
the use of carbon-based quantum dots (QDs), including carbon dots (CDs), graphene …

Carbon dots for photocatalytic degradation of aqueous pollutants: recent advancements

K Akbar, E Moretti, A Vomiero - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The immense progress of humanity on the technological, domestic, and industrial fronts
comes at the cost of polluting the planet. Aquatic pollution is particularly dangerous since all …

Quantum dots for photocatalysis: synthesis and environmental applications

M Jouyandeh, SSM Khadem, S Habibzadeh… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantum dots (QDs) with unique properties have been widely employed for energy,
environmental, and health care applications. Green natural resources, because of their …

Duplex metal co-doped carbon quantum dots-based drug delivery system with intelligent adjustable size as adjuvant for synergistic cancer therapy

C Han, X Zhang, F Wang, Q Yu, F Chen, D Shen… - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are extensively applied for bioimaging due to their unique
photoluminescence properties, while less attention has been paid to their inherent bio …

Carbon Nanomaterial Fluorescent Probes and Their Biological Applications

AT Krasley, E Li, JM Galeana, C Bulumulla… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent carbon nanomaterials have broadly useful chemical and photophysical
attributes that are conducive to applications in biology. In this review, we focus on materials …

Fascinating MXene nanomaterials: emerging opportunities in the biomedical field

X Lin, Z Li, J Qiu, Q Wang, J Wang, H Zhang… - Biomaterials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, there has been rapid progress in MXene research due to its distinctive two-
dimensional structure and outstanding properties. Especially in biomedical applications …

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 …

Emerging trends in green carbon dots coated with molecularly imprinted polymers for sensor platforms

R Keçili, CG Hussain, CM Hussain - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) attracted broad research interest since its first discover in 2004, due to
their superior physicochemical features and favorable attributes such as great …