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 …

Carbon Dots: Classification, properties, synthesis, characterization, and applications in health care—An updated review (2018–2021)

BD Mansuriya, Z Altintas - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Carbon dots (CDs) are usually smaller than 10 nm in size, and are meticulously formulated
and recently introduced nanomaterials, among the other types of carbon-based …

Carbon-based materials in photodynamic and photothermal therapies applied to tumor destruction

KJ Lagos, HH Buzzá, VS Bagnato… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Within phototherapy, a grand challenge in clinical cancer treatments is to develop a simple,
cost-effective, and biocompatible approach to treat this disease using ultra-low doses of …

Carbon dots: an innovative tool for drug delivery in brain tumors

G Calabrese, G De Luca, G Nocito, MG Rizzo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The pharmacological treatment of tumors of the central nervous system
poses major challenges due to the presence of physical obstacles, ie, the blood-brain …

Aptamer-conjugated carbon-based nanomaterials for cancer and bacteria theranostics: A review

S Sargazi, ER Simge, A Mobashar, SS Gelen… - Chemico-biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aptamers are single-stranded oligonucleotides that link to various substrates with great
affinity and selectivity, including small molecules, peptides, proteins, cells, and tissues. For …

Current advances in the biomedical applications of quantum dots: promises and challenges

N Le, K Kim - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Quantum dots (QDs) are a type of nanoparticle with exceptional photobleaching-resistant
fluorescence. They are highly sought after for their potential use in various optical-based …

Multifunctional carbon dots for biomedical applications: diagnosis, therapy, and theranostic

J Wang, Y Fu, Z Gu, H Pan, P Zhou, Q Gan, Y Yuan… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Designing suitable nanomaterials is an ideal strategy to enable early diagnosis and effective
treatment of diseases. Carbon dots (CDs) are luminescent carbonaceous nanoparticles that …

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 …

Near-infrared-II photothermal ultra-small carbon dots promoting anticancer efficiency by enhancing tumor penetration

Y Han, H Liu, M Fan, S Gao, D Fan, Z Wang… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Because of the particular environment of the tumor microenvironment, improving the deep
penetration of drugs in tumor sites is a critical problem to improve the therapeutic effect of …

A MXene-derived redox homeostasis regulator perturbs the Nrf2 antioxidant program for reinforced sonodynamic therapy

H Wang, X Liu, X Yan, J Fan, D Li, J Ren, X Qu - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ultrasound (US)-mediated sonodynamic therapy (SDT) has emerged as a spatiotemporally
controllable therapeutic modality in combating cancer because of its high tissue-penetration …