Smart nanomaterials in cancer theranostics: challenges and opportunities

BK Kashyap, VV Singh, MK Solanki, A Kumar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer is ranked as the second leading cause of death globally. Traditional cancer
therapies including chemotherapy are flawed, with off-target and on-target toxicities on the …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the application, toxicity and degradation of carbon nanomaterials in environment: A review

Z Peng, X Liu, W Zhang, Z Zeng, Z Liu, C Zhang… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) are novel nanomaterials with excellent physicochemical
properties, which are widely used in biomedicine, energy and sensing. Besides, CNMs also …

Optimized strategies of ROS-based nanodynamic therapies for tumor theranostics

Y Di, R Deng, Z Liu, Y Mao, Y Gao, Q Zhao, S Wang - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a crucial role in regulating the metabolism of tumor
growth, metastasis, death and other biological processes. ROS-based nanodynamic …

Light‐responsive inorganic biomaterials for biomedical applications

HP Lee, AK Gaharwar - Advanced science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐responsive inorganic biomaterials are an emerging class of materials used for
develo** noninvasive, noncontact, precise, and controllable medical devices in a wide …

[HTML][HTML] Research progress on carbon materials in tumor photothermal therapy

K Qi, B Sun, S Liu, M Zhang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
At present, cancer remains one of the leading causes of human death worldwide, and
surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are still the main methods of cancer treatment …

Recent advances in the modification of carbon-based quantum dots for biomedical applications

A Alaghmandfard, O Sedighi, NT Rezaei… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon-based quantum dots (CDs) are mainly divided into two sub-groups; carbon quantum
dots (CQDs) and graphene quantum dots (GQDs), which exhibit outstanding …

Recent advances and prospects of carbon dots in phototherapy

B Li, S Zhao, L Huang, Q Wang, J **ao… - Chemical engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) are novel zero-dimensional carbonaceous nanomaterial, and they are
featured with an attractive combination of physical, chemical, and biomedical properties …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor diagnosis using carbon-based quantum dots: detection based on the hallmarks of cancer

H Wang, S Yang, L Chen, Y Li, P He, G Wang, H Dong… - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon-based quantum dots (CQDs) have been shown to have promising application value
in tumor diagnosis. Their use, however, is severely hindered by the complicated nature of …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in nanotechnology improving the therapeutic potential of polyphenols for cancer

IRS Vieira, L Tessaro, AKO Lima, IPS Velloso… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polyphenols derived from fruits, vegetables, and plants are bioactive compounds potentially
beneficial to human health. Notably, compounds such as quercetin, curcumin …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon-based materials in photodynamic and photothermal therapies applied to tumor destruction

KJ Lagos, HH Buzzá, VS Bagnato… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Within phototherapy, a grand challenge in clinical cancer treatments is to develop a simple,
cost-effective, and biocompatible approach to treat this disease using ultra-low doses of …