Band gap tuning and surface modification of carbon dots for sustainable environmental remediation and photocatalytic hydrogen production–A review

A Mehta, A Mishra, S Basu, NP Shetti, KR Reddy… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Energy and water are the two major issues facing the modern mankind. Providing freshwater
requires energy and producing energy uses water. In the present-day scenario, both these …

Graphene quantum dot based materials for sensing, bio-imaging and energy storage applications: a review

YR Kumar, K Deshmukh, KK Sadasivuni, SKK Pasha - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are an attractive nanomaterial consisting of a monolayer or
a few layers of graphene having excellent and unique properties. GQDs are endowed with …

Recent advances in the modification of carbon-based quantum dots for biomedical applications

A Alaghmandfard, O Sedighi, NT Rezaei… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon-based quantum dots (CDs) are mainly divided into two sub-groups; carbon quantum
dots (CQDs) and graphene quantum dots (GQDs), which exhibit outstanding …

Revisiting the cytotoxicity of quantum dots: An in-depth overview

S Nikazar, VS Sivasankarapillai, A Rahdar, S Gasmi… - Biophysical …, 2020 - Springer
Recently, medical research has been shifting its focus to nanomedicine and
nanotherapeutics in the pursuit of drug development research. Quantum dots (QDs) are a …

Nanomaterials-based photosensitizers and delivery systems for photodynamic cancer therapy

XT Yu, SY Sui, YX He, CH Yu, Q Peng - Biomaterials Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing cancer morbidity and mortality requires the development of high-efficiency
and low-toxicity anticancer approaches. In recent years, photodynamic therapy (PDT) has …

Bioresource-based graphene quantum dots and their applications: a review

N Sohal, S Singla, SJ Malode, S Basu… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Environmental worsening, energy crises, and various other factors have enhanced the
demand for facile, cheap, and green approaches for creating emerging materials from …

Induction of ferroptosis in response to graphene quantum dots through mitochondrial oxidative stress in microglia

T Wu, X Liang, X Liu, Y Li, Y Wang, L Kong… - Particle and Fibre …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) provide a bright prospect in the
biomedical application because they contain low-toxic compounds and promise imaging of …

Turning waste into wealth: facile and green synthesis of carbon nanodots from pollutants and applications to bioimaging

W Chen, J Shen, Z Wang, X Liu, Y Xu, H Zhao… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In an effort to turn waste into wealth, Reactive Red 2 (RR2), a common and refractory
organic pollutant in industrial wastewater, has been employed for the first time as a …

[HTML][HTML] ROS generation/scavenging modulation of carbon dots as phototherapeutic candidates and peroxidase mimetics to integrate with polydopamine …

G Getachew, C Korupalli, AS Rasal… - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

State-of-the-art iron-based nanozymes for biocatalytic tumor therapy

M Li, H Zhang, Y Hou, X Wang, C Xue, W Li, K Cai… - Nanoscale …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalytic tumor therapy with artificial nanoscale enzyme-mimics (nanozymes) is an
emerging strategy for the therapeutic intervention of a variety of malignant conditions, which …