Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications

A Döring, E Ushakova, AL Rogach - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon dots are luminescent carbonaceous nanoparticles that can be endowed with chiral
properties, making them particularly interesting for biomedical applications due to their low …

Self-assembled inorganic chiral superstructures

J Lv, X Gao, B Han, Y Zhu, K Hou, Z Tang - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Controlled assembly of inorganic nanoparticles with different compositions, sizes and
shapes into higher-order structures of collective functionalities is a central pursued objective …

Chiral inorganic nanostructures

W Ma, L Xu, AF de Moura, X Wu, H Kuang, C Xu… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Physicochemical properties determine nanomaterial cellular uptake, transport, and fate

M Zhu, G Nie, H Meng, T **a, A Nel… - Accounts of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Although a growing number of innovations have emerged in the fields of nanobiotechnology
and nanomedicine, new engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) with novel physicochemical …

Meta-analysis of cellular toxicity for cadmium-containing quantum dots

E Oh, R Liu, A Nel, KB Gemill, M Bilal, Y Cohen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the relationships between the physicochemical properties of engineered
nanomaterials and their toxicity is critical for environmental and health risk analysis …

Aqueous based semiconductor nanocrystals

L **g, SV Kershaw, Y Li, X Huang, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes traditional and recent nonconventional, bioinspired, methods for the
aqueous synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The basic chemistry …

Bismuth Sulfide Nanorods as a Precision Nanomedicine for in Vivo Multimodal Imaging-Guided Photothermal Therapy of Tumor

J Liu, X Zheng, L Yan, L Zhou, G Tian, W Yin, L Wang… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Here, we present a precision cancer nanomedicine based on Bi2S3 nanorods (NRs)
designed specifically for multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT)/X-ray computed …

An overview on nanoparticles used in biomedicine and their cytotoxicity

M Nikzamir, A Akbarzadeh, Y Panahi - Journal of Drug Delivery Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology is the development of engineered nanoparticles to use in biomedical
applications. Nanoparticles have unique physicochemical properties for use in biomedicine …

Application of semiconductor quantum dots in bioimaging and biosensing

IV Martynenko, AP Litvin, F Purcell-Milton… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review we present new concepts and recent progress in the application of
semiconductor quantum dots (QD) as labels in two important areas of biology, bioimaging …

Highly fluorescent chiral N‐S‐doped carbon dots from cysteine: affecting cellular energy metabolism

F Li, Y Li, X Yang, X Han, Y Jiao, T Wei… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cysteine‐based chiral optically active carbon dots (CDs) and their effects on cellular energy
metabolism, which is vital for essential cellular functions, have been barely reported. A …