Carbon dots: A future Blood–Brain Barrier penetrating nanomedicine and drug nanocarrier

W Zhang, G Sigdel, KJ Mintz, ES Seven… - International journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) is one of the biggest challenges in
modern medicine due to the BBB's highly semipermeable property that limits most …

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 …

A deep investigation into the structure of carbon dots

KJ Mintz, M Bartoli, M Rovere, Y Zhou… - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Since their discovery, carbon dots (CDs) have been a promising nanomaterial in a variety of
fields including nanomedicine. Despite their potential in this area, there are many obstacles …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in nanocarrier-assisted therapeutics delivery systems

S Su, PM Kang - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnologies have attracted increasing attention in their application in medicine,
especially in the development of new drug delivery systems. With the help of nano-sized …

Drug delivery of memantine with carbon dots for Alzheimer's disease: blood–brain barrier penetration and inhibition of tau aggregation

W Zhang, N Kandel, Y Zhou, N Smith… - Journal of colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Neurofibrillary tangle, composed of aggregated tau protein, is a pathological hallmark of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). The inhibition of tau aggregation is therefore an important …

Structure–property–activity relationships in carbon dots

Y Zhou, W Zhang, RM Leblanc - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots (CDs) are one of the most versatile nanomaterials discovered in the 21st
century. They possess many properties and thus hold potentials in diverse applications …

Carbon-based designer and programmable fluorescent quantum dots for targeted biological and biomedical applications

K Barve, U Singh, P Yadav, D Bhatia - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) are emerging nano-biomaterials owing to their exceptional optical and
physico-chemical properties. In recent years, they have gained attention due to some of their …

Crossing the blood–brain barrier with carbon dots: uptake mechanism and in vivo cargo delivery

ES Seven, YB Seven, Y Zhou, S Poudel-Sharma… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a major obstacle for drug delivery to the central nervous
system (CNS) such that most therapeutics lack efficacy against brain tumors or neurological …

Application of quantum dots in brain diseases and their neurotoxic mechanism

Y Hu, X Wang, Y Niu, K He, M Tang - Nanoscale Advances, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The early-stage diagnosis and therapy of brain diseases pose a persistent challenge in the
field of biomedicine. Quantum dots (QDs), nano-luminescent materials known for their small …

Production of a magnetic nanocomposite for biological and hyperthermia applications based on chitosan-silk fibroin hydrogel incorporated with carbon nitride

Z Sadat, A Kashtiaray, F Ganjali, HAM Aliabadi… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogels based on natural polymers have lightened the path of novel drug delivery
systems, wound healing, and tissue engineering fields because they are renewable, non …