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 …

Nanoarchitecture-integrated hydrogel systems toward therapeutic applications

H Zhu, J Zheng, XY Oh, CY Chan, BQL Low, JQ Tor… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels, as one of the most feasible soft biomaterials, have gained considerable attention
in therapeutic applications by virtue of their tunable properties including superior patient …

Advances in single-component inorganic nanostructures for photoacoustic imaging guided photothermal therapy

H Zhu, B Li, CY Chan, BLQ Ling, J Tor, XY Oh… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phototheranostic based on photothermal therapy (PTT) and photoacoustic imaging (PAI), as
one of avant-garde medical techniques, have sparked growing attention because it allows …

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 …

Graphene quantum dots: A contemporary perspective on scope, opportunities, and sustainability

P Kumar, C Dhand, N Dwivedi, S Singh, R Khan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since its discovery in 2004, graphene and its derivatives have received extensive interest
due to their exceptional electrical, thermal, mechanical and optical properties. Not only …

Functionalized MoS2-Based Nanomaterials for Cancer Phototherapy and Other Biomedical Applications

M Liu, H Zhu, Y Wang, C Sevencan, BL Li - ACS Materials Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), as a novel category of nanomaterials and a
potential alternate to graphene, are attracting great interest of researchers, because of their …

Properties and applications of quantum dots derived from two-dimensional materials

H Abdelsalam, QF Zhang - Advances in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Quantum dots based on two-dimensional materials (2D-QDs) have received significant
attention due to their exceptional physical, chemical, and biological properties. They have …

Recent advances in ultrathin two-dimensional materials and biomedical applications for reactive oxygen species generation and scavenging

L Wang, Y Li, L Zhao, Z Qi, J Gou, S Zhang, JZ Zhang - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene and graphene-like two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, such as black
phosphorus (BP), transition metal carbides/carbonitrides (MXene) and transition metal …

Sulfur defect-engineered biodegradable cobalt sulfide quantum dot-driven photothermal and chemodynamic anticancer therapy

H Zhu, S Huang, M Ding, Z Li, J Li… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chemodynamic therapy (CDT), as a powerful tumor therapeutic approach with low side
effects and selective therapeutic efficiency, has gained much attention. However, the low …

[HTML][HTML] Flexible polymeric patch based nanotherapeutics against non-cancer therapy

H Zhu, JMJ Qiang, CG Wang, CY Chan, Q Zhu, E Ye… - Bioactive Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Flexible polymeric patches find widespread applications in biomedicine because of their
biological and tunable features including excellent patient compliance, superior …