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 …

Polymer-derived heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials

H Wang, Y Shao, S Mei, Y Lu, M Zhang, J Sun… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials (HPCMs) have found extensive applications in
adsorption/separation, organic catalysis, sensing, and energy conversion/storage. The …

Recent advances of carbon dots as new antimicrobial agents

P Li, L Sun, S Xue, D Qu, L An, X Wang, Z Sun - SmartMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many rapid antimicrobial agents have developed
intensively. Carbon dots (CDs), a new type of carbon‐based nanomaterials, shows great …

Crossing the blood-brain barrier with nanoparticles

Y Zhou, Z Peng, ES Seven, RM Leblanc - Journal of controlled release, 2018 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is one of the most essential protection mechanisms in the
central nervous system (CNS). It selectively allows individual molecules such as small lipid …

Recent development of carbon quantum dots regarding their optical properties, photoluminescence mechanism, and core structure

KJ Mintz, Y Zhou, RM Leblanc - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon quantum dots (CDs) are a relatively new class of carbon nanomaterials which have
been studied very much in the last fifteen years to improve their already favorable properties …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dot/polymer nanocomposites: From green synthesis to energy, environmental and biomedical applications

Z Feng, KH Adolfsson, Y Xu, H Fang… - Sustainable materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs), a novel family of multifunctional carbon-nanomaterials, has the potential
to revolutionize several important fields supporting the transformation to sustainable …

An overview on carbon quantum dots optical and chemical features

MG Giordano, G Seganti, M Bartoli, A Tagliaferro - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Carbon quantum dots are the materials of a new era with astonishing properties such as
high photoluminescence, chemical tuneability and high biocompatibility. Since their …

Polymer–Structure‐Induced Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence of Carbon Dot Materials

C Zheng, S Tao, B Yang - Small Structures, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As emerging carbon‐based nanomaterials, carbon dots (CDs) are widely studied with
regard to their luminescent properties. CDs obtained by the bottom‐up method exhibit …

Carbon dots: biomacromolecule interaction, bioimaging and nanomedicine

Z Peng, X Han, S Li, AO Al-Youbi… - Coordination chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Carbon dots, a recent member of the renowned carbon-based nanomaterials family, have
attracted significant interest from various fields. The extraordinary properties, including …