Nanotechnology's frontier in combatting infectious and inflammatory diseases: prevention and treatment

Y Huang, X Guo, Y Wu, X Chen, L Feng, N **e… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammation-associated diseases encompass a range of infectious diseases and non-
infectious inflammatory diseases, which continuously pose one of the most serious threats to …

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 …

Green synthesis, biomedical and biotechnological applications of carbon and graphene quantum dots. A review

S Iravani, RS Varma - Environmental chemistry letters, 2020 - Springer
Carbon and graphene quantum dots are prepared using top-down and bottom-up methods.
Sustainable synthesis of quantum dots has several advantages such as the use of low-cost …

Recent advances of carbon dots as new antimicrobial agents

P Li, L Sun, S Xue, D Qu, L An, X Wang, Z Sun - SmartMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many rapid antimicrobial agents have developed
intensively. Carbon dots (CDs), a new type of carbon‐based nanomaterials, shows great …

Biomass-derived carbon nanomaterials for sensor applications

SJ Malode, MM Shanbhag, R Kumari, DS Dkhar… - … of Pharmaceutical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to utilizing dedicated waste
biomass as a sustainable, cheap, and abundant fuel and material source. There is a …

Nanotechnology-based antiviral therapeutics

M Chakravarty, A Vora - Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2021 - Springer
The host immune system is highly compromised in case of viral infections and relapses are
very common. The capacity of the virus to destroy the host cell by liberating its own DNA or …

An overview of functional nanoparticles as novel emerging antiviral therapeutic agents

L Chen, J Liang - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2020 - Elsevier
Research on highly effective antiviral drugs is essential for preventing the spread of
infections and reducing losses. Recently, many functional nanoparticles have been shown …

Functional carbon quantum dots as medical countermeasures to human coronavirus

A Łoczechin, K Séron, A Barras… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Therapeutic options for the highly pathogenic human coronavirus (HCoV) infections are
urgently needed. Anticoronavirus therapy is however challenging, as coronaviruses are …

[HTML][HTML] Antiviral potential of nanoparticles—can nanoparticles fight against coronaviruses?

S Gurunathan, M Qasim, Y Choi, JT Do, C Park… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases account for more than 20% of global mortality and viruses are
responsible for about one-third of these deaths. Highly infectious viral diseases such as …

Carbon-based antiviral nanomaterials: Graphene, C-dots, and fullerenes. A perspective

P Innocenzi, L Stagi - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The appearance of new and lethal viruses and their potential threat urgently requires
innovative antiviral systems. In addition to the most common and proven pharmacological …