Carbon dots as nontoxic and high-performance fluorescence imaging agents

ST Yang, X Wang, H Wang, F Lu, PG Luo… - The Journal of …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent carbon dots (small carbon nanoparticles with the surface passivated by
oligomeric PEG molecules) were evaluated for their cytotoxicity and in vivo toxicity and also …

Carbon dots of different composition and surface functionalization: cytotoxicity issues relevant to fluorescence cell imaging

Y Wang, P Anilkumar, L Cao, JH Liu… - Experimental …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Nanoscale carbon particles have emerged as versatile precursors for a new class of highly
fluorescent nanomaterials that resemble semiconductor quantum dots. The surface …

[HTML][HTML] Competitive performance of carbon “quantum” dots in optical bioimaging

L Cao, ST Yang, X Wang, PG Luo, JH Liu, S Sahu… - Theranostics, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Carbon-based “quantum” dots or carbon dots are surface-functionalized small carbon
nanoparticles. For bright fluorescence emissions, the carbon nanoparticles may be surface …

Carbon “quantum” dots for optical bioimaging

PG Luo, S Sahu, ST Yang, SK Sonkar… - Journal of Materials …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots, generally referring to small carbon nanoparticles with various levels of surface
passivation, have emerged as a new class of quantum dot-like fluorescent nanomaterials …

Polyethyleneimine modified fluorescent carbon dots and their application in cell labeling

B Han, W Wang, H Wu, F Fang, N Wang… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2012 - Elsevier
Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) were solvothermaly synthesized in water–glycol medium by
using glucose as carbon source and then modified with polyethyleneimine (PEI) for the first …

Carbon dots for optical imaging in vivo

ST Yang, L Cao, PG Luo, F Lu, X Wang… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
It was found and recently reported that small carbon nanoparticles can be surface-
passivated by organic or biomolecules to become strongly fluorescent. These fluorescent …

A review on syntheses, properties, characterization and bioanalytical applications of fluorescent carbon dots

P Zuo, X Lu, Z Sun, Y Guo, H He - Microchimica Acta, 2016 - Springer
Carbon dots (C-dots) are a kind of fluorescent nanoparticles that are strongly fluorescent,
non-blinking, and can be easily synthesized at low cost. Their emission color can be tuned …

Carbon dots doped with heteroatoms for fluorescent bioimaging: a review

J Zhou, H Zhou, J Tang, S Deng, F Yan, W Li, M Qu - Microchimica Acta, 2017 - Springer
Carbon dots (CDs) possess superior fluorescent properties in that they do not blink, are
biocompatible, chemically inert, have small size and well tunable photoluminescence (PL) …

Carbon “quantum” dots for fluorescence labeling of cells

JH Liu, L Cao, GE LeCroy, P Wang… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The specifically synthesized and selected carbon dots of relatively high fluorescence
quantum yields were evaluated in their fluorescence labeling of cells. For the cancer cell …

Photoluminescent Carbon Dots as Biocompatible Nanoprobes for Targeting Cancer Cells in Vitro

Q Li, TY Ohulchanskyy, R Liu, K Koynov… - The Journal of …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanoparticles become photoluminescent upon surface passivation with oligomeric
polymer chains. In this work, the dependence of the carbon dots photoluminescent …