Carbon dots as a new class of nanomedicines: opportunities and challenges

B Wang, H Song, X Qu, J Chang, B Yang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in preclinical and clinical …

Carbon-based nanomaterials for biomedical applications: a recent study

D Maiti, X Tong, X Mou, K Yang - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
The study of carbon-based nanomaterials (CBNs) for biomedical applications has attracted
great attention due to their unique chemical and physical properties including thermal …

Shining carbon dots: Synthesis and biomedical and optoelectronic applications

F Yuan, S Li, Z Fan, X Meng, L Fan, S Yang - Nano Today, 2016‏ - Elsevier
In recent years, the emerging fluorescent carbon dots have shown enormous potentials for
biomedical and optoelectronic applications owing to their outstanding characteristics such …

Carbon nanomaterials for biological imaging and nanomedicinal therapy

G Hong, S Diao, AL Antaris, H Dai - Chemical reviews, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Carbon nanomaterials are a class of low-dimensional materials that have aroused a great
deal of interest in the past 30 years since the spectacular debut of fullerene, the first member …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dots: large-scale synthesis, sensing and bioimaging

J Zhang, SH Yu - Materials Today, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Emerging as a potent alternative to classical metal-based semiconductor quantum dots
(Qdots), carbon dots (Cdots) possess the distinctive advantages of convenient synthesis …

Charge-Convertible Carbon Dots for Imaging-Guided Drug Delivery with Enhanced in Vivo Cancer Therapeutic Efficiency

T Feng, X Ai, G An, P Yang, Y Zhao - ACS nano, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Carbon dots (CDs) are remarkable nanocarriers due to their promising optical and
biocompatible capabilities. However, their practical applicability in cancer therapeutics is …

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 …

Recent advances in carbon dots for bioimaging applications

H Li, X Yan, D Kong, R **, C Sun, D Du, Y Lin… - Nanoscale …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
As an important member of fluorescence nanoparticles, carbon dots (CDs) not only possess
exceptional chemical properties, including excellent biocompatibility, low toxicity and …

On-off-on fluorescent nanosensor for Fe3+ detection and cancer/normal cell differentiation via silicon-doped carbon quantum dots

G Gao, YW Jiang, HR Jia, J Yang, FG Wu - Carbon, 2018‏ - Elsevier
In this study, an on-off-on fluorescent nanosensor based on carbon quantum dots (or carbon
dots, CDs) was successfully fabricated for Fe 3+ detection and selective imaging of …

Carbon‐based nanomaterials for cancer therapy via targeting tumor microenvironment

J Saleem, L Wang, C Chen - Advanced healthcare materials, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Cancer remains one of the major health problems all over the world and conventional
therapeutic approaches have failed to attain an effective cure. Tumor microenvironments …