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 …

Fluorescent nanoparticles for super-resolution imaging

W Li, GS Kaminski Schierle, B Lei, Y Liu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Super-resolution imaging techniques that overcome the diffraction limit of light have gained
wide popularity for visualizing cellular structures with nanometric resolution. Following the …

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 …

Positively charged carbon dots with antibacterial and antioxidant dual activities for promoting infected wound healing

X Qu, C Gao, L Fu, Y Chu, JH Wang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bacterial infection and excess reactive oxygen species are key factors that lead to slow or
substantially delayed wound healing. It is crucial to design and develop new nanomaterials …

Preparation of chitosan/gelatin-based functional films integrated with carbon dots from banana peel for active packaging application

Y Sul, P Ezati, JW Rhim - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) were manufactured with banana peels using a hydrothermal method
(200° C for 6 h). The synthesized CDs were spherical particles with a size of 1–3 nm having …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Antibacterial gas therapy: strategies, advances, and prospects

TY Wang, XY Zhu, FG Wu - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the challenges posed by current antibacterial therapy is that the expanded and
massive use of antibiotics endows bacteria with the ability to resist almost all kinds of …

Nanotechnology-based antimicrobials and delivery systems for biofilm-infection control

Y Liu, L Shi, L Su, HC van der Mei, PC Jutte… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacterial-infections are mostly due to bacteria in an adhering, biofilm-mode of growth and
not due to planktonically growing, suspended-bacteria. Biofilm-bacteria are much more …

Antibacterial carbon‐based nanomaterials

Q **n, H Shah, A Nawaz, W **e, MZ Akram… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence and global spread of bacterial resistance to currently available antibiotics
underscore the urgent need for new alternative antibacterial agents. Recent studies on the …