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 …

Antibacterial carbon dots: mechanisms, design, and applications

WB Zhao, KK Liu, Y Wang, FK Li, R Guo… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The increase in antibiotic resistance promotes the situation of develo** new antibiotics at
the forefront, while the development of non‐antibiotic pharmaceuticals is equally significant …

Transformation of arginine into zero-dimensional nanomaterial endows the material with antibacterial and osteoinductive activity

J Li, J Ma, H Sun, M Yu, H Wang, Q Meng, Z Li… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Implant-associated infection is a major threat affecting the success of orthopedic surgeries.
Although various materials scavenge bacteria by generating reactive oxygen species (ROS) …

Upconversion dual-photosensitizer–expressing bacteria for near-infrared monochromatically excitable synergistic phototherapy

M Chen, Q Han, M Zhang, Y Liu, L Wang, F Yang… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
Synergistic phototherapy stands for superior treatment prospects than a single
phototherapeutic modality. However, the combined photosensitizers often suffer from …

Carbon dots as a new class of nanomedicines: opportunities and challenges

B Wang, H Song, X Qu, J Chang, B Yang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in preclinical and clinical …

Applications of carbon dots in environmental pollution control: A review

C Long, Z Jiang, J Shangguan, T Qing, P Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
With the development of carbon-based nanomaterials, carbon dots (CDs) have recently
received increasing attention owing to their unique optical properties, low toxicity, facile …

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 …

Carbon nanomaterials against pathogens; the antimicrobial activity of carbon nanotubes, graphene/graphene oxide, fullerenes, and their nanocomposites

M Azizi-Lalabadi, H Hashemi, J Feng… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Recently, antibiotic resistance of pathogens has grown given the excessive and
inappropriate usage of common antimicrobial agents. Hence, producing novel antimicrobial …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated antibacterial oxidative therapies: available methods to generate ROS and a novel option proposal

S Alfei, GC Schito, AM Schito, G Zuccari - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The increasing emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens causes difficult-to-treat
infections with long-term hospitalizations and a high incidence of death, thus representing a …

Carbon dots: advances in nanocarbon applications

Z Kang, ST Lee - Nanoscale, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (C-Dots), defined by characteristic sizes of< 10 nm, have become a rising star
in carbon nanomaterials. C-Dots possess many unique physiochemical and photochemical …