Nanogels: Synthesis, properties, and recent biomedical applications

QY Duan, YX Zhu, HR Jia, SH Wang, FG Wu - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanogels, also termed hydrogel nanoparticles, have the properties and functions of both
nanomaterials and hydrogels. Till date, a considerable number of nanogels have been …

Molecularly imprinted polymers in electrochemical and optical sensors

OS Ahmad, TS Bedwell, C Esen, A Garcia-Cruz… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Molecular imprinting is the process of template-induced formation of specific recognition
sites in a polymer. Synthetic receptors prepared using molecular imprinting possess a …

Carbon dot‐based hydrogels: Preparations, properties, and applications

Y Wang, T Lv, K Yin, N Feng, X Sun, J Zhou, H Li - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels have extremely high moisture content, which makes it very soft and excellently
biocompatible. They have become an important soft material and have a wide range of …

Fluorescent carbon dots and their sensing applications

X Sun, Y Lei - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) are a new class of carbon nanomaterials and have
demonstrated excellent optical properties, good biocompatibility, great aqueous solubility …

Recent advances of electrochemical and optical enzyme-free glucose sensors operating at physiological conditions

M Adeel, MM Rahman, I Caligiuri, V Canzonieri… - Biosensors and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Diabetes is a pathological condition that requires the continuous monitoring of glucose level
in the blood. Its control has been tremendously improved by the application of point-of-care …

[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 …

Carbon quantum dots as fluorescence resonance energy transfer sensors for organophosphate pesticides determination

X Wu, Y Song, X Yan, C Zhu, Y Ma, D Du… - Biosensors and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) obtained from natural organics attract significant attention due
to the abundance of carbon sources, varieties of heteroatom do** (such as N, S, P) and …

Carbon-based hybrid nanogels: a synergistic nanoplatform for combined biosensing, bioimaging, and responsive drug delivery

H Wang, Q Chen, S Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanosized crosslinked polymer networks, named as nanogels, are playing an increasingly
important role in a diverse range of applications by virtue of their porous structures, large …

One-pot to synthesize multifunctional carbon dots for near infrared fluorescence imaging and photothermal cancer therapy

M Zheng, Y Li, S Liu, W Wang, Z **e… - ACS applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
It is an emerging focus to develop a simple and straightforward strategy to synthesize
multifunctional nanomedicines for cancer imaging and treatment. In this work, a new carbon …

Biogreen synthesis of carbon dots for biotechnology and nanomedicine applications

KK Chan, SHK Yap, KT Yong - Nano-micro letters, 2018 - Springer
Over the past decade, carbon dots have ignited a burst of interest in many different fields,
including nanomedicine, solar energy, optoelectronics, energy storage, and sensing …