ReviewNano-micro letters2018
Biogreen Synthesis of Carbon Dots for Biotechnology and Nanomedicine Applications.
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- Biomass-derived surface-functionalized graphene quantum dots for aggregation-induced green fluorescence.Nanoscale advances · 2026Article
- Carbon dots penetrating the blood-brain barrier for central nervous system nanomedicine.Theranostics · 2026Review
- Renal-clearable and mitochondria-targeted metal-engineered carbon dot nanozymes for regulating mitochondrial oxidative stress in acute kidney injury.Materials today. Bio · 2025Article
- Carbon dots from purple sweet potato as a promising anti-inflammatory biomaterial for alleviating the LPS-induced inflammation in macrophages.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2025Article
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- Medicinal Plants Derived Green Carbon Dots: Synthesis, Characterization and Their Potential Applications in Cancer Therapy.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024Review
- Flexible Sensors Based on Conductive Polymer Composites.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Chemical- and green-precursor-derived carbon dots for photocatalytic degradation of dyes.iScience · 2024Review
- Chitosan-PEI passivated carbon dots for plasmid DNA and miRNA-153 delivery in cancer cells.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Rambutan seed waste-derived nitrogen-doped carbon dots with l-aspartic acid for the sensing of Congo red dye.RSC advances · 2023Article
- Recent Advances in Nano-Enabled Seed Treatment Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture: Challenges, Risk Assessment, and Future Perspectives.Nano-micro letters · 2023Review
- Current Progress of Ratiometric Fluorescence Sensors Based on Carbon Dots in Foodborne Contaminant Detection.Biosensors · 2023Review
- Lysosome Imaging Based on Fluorescent Carbon Dots.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Article
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- Tuning the Sensing Properties of N and S Co-Doped Carbon Dots for Colorimetric Detection of Copper and Cobalt in Water.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- One-Step Green Synthesis of Water-Soluble Fluorescent Carbon Dots and Its Application in the Detection of CuNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Over the past decade, carbon dots have ignited a burst of interest in many different fields, including nanomedicine, solar energy, optoelectronics, energy storage, and sensing applications, owing to their excellent photoluminescence properties and the easiness to modify their optical properties through doping and functionalization. In this review, the synthesis, structural and optical properties, as well as photoluminescence mechanisms of carbon dots are first reviewed and summarized. Then, we describe a series of designs for carbon dot-based sensors and the different sensing mechanisms associated with them. Thereafter, we elaborate on recent research advances on carbon dot-based sensors for the selective and sensitive detection of a wide range of analytes, including heavy metals, cations, anions, biomolecules, biomarkers, nitroaromatic explosives, pollutants, vitamins, and drugs. Lastly, we provide a concluding perspective on the overall status, challenges, and future directions for the use of carbon dots in real-life sensing.
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