The blood–brain barrier: structure, regulation, and drug delivery

D Wu, Q Chen, X Chen, F Han, Z Chen… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a natural protective membrane that prevents central nervous
system (CNS) from toxins and pathogens in blood. However, the presence of BBB …

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 …

Recent progress in nanostructured smart drug delivery systems for cancer therapy: a review

MI Khan, MI Hossain, MK Hossain… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Traditional treatment approaches for cancer involve intravenous chemotherapy or other
forms of drug delivery. These therapeutic measures suffer from several limitations such as …

Electroactive biomaterials and systems for cell fate determination and tissue regeneration: design and applications

Z Liu, X Wan, ZL Wang, L Li - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During natural tissue regeneration, tissue microenvironment and stem cell niche including
cell–cell interaction, soluble factors, and extracellular matrix (ECM) provide a train of …

Phenolic-enabled nanotechnology: versatile particle engineering for biomedicine

D Wu, J Zhou, MN Creyer, W Yim, Z Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Phenolics are ubiquitous in nature and have gained immense research attention because of
their unique physiochemical properties and widespread industrial use. In recent decades …

Mussel-inspired chemistry: a promising strategy for natural polysaccharides in biomedical applications

F Liu, X Liu, F Chen, Q Fu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are a kind of natural biopolymers and have been widely applied in various
fields, especially biomedical applications, due to their fascinating properties, such as …

Carbon dots for in vivo bioimaging and theranostics

J Du, N Xu, J Fan, W Sun, X Peng - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs), a kind of carbon material discovered accidentally, exhibit unexpected
advantages in fluorescence imaging/sensing such as photostability, biocompatibility, and …

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 …

Tunable and ultraefficient microwave absorption properties of trace N‐doped two‐dimensional carbon‐based nanocomposites loaded with multi‐rare earth oxides

S Gao, GS Wang, L Guo, SH Yu - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A high efficiency and great tunability of bandwidth and absorption‐range electromagnetic
wave absorber is proposed without precedent. A series of 2D carbon‐based …

Engineered Exosome-Mediated Near-Infrared-II Region V2C Quantum Dot Delivery for Nucleus-Target Low-Temperature Photothermal Therapy

Y Cao, T Wu, K Zhang, X Meng, W Dai, D Wang… - Acs Nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
The limited penetration depth of photothermal agents (PTAs) active in the NIR-I biowindow
and the thermoresistance caused by heat shock protein (HSP) significantly limit the …