ReviewMikrochimica acta2022
An insight into the potentials of carbon dots for in vitro live-cell imaging: recent progress, challenges, and prospects.
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- Carbon dots and DNA: DNA binding mechanisms and their effect on the cell cycle arrest.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- Selecting the optimal cell migration assay: fundamentals and practical guidelines.Nature methods · 2026Review
- Carbon dots as probes in FLIM:a review of applications and advances in cellular imaging.RSC advances · 2025Review
- Chiral carbon dot as a fluorescent stain with enantiomer-dependent cell imaging.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Carbon dots: synthesis, sensing mechanisms, and potential applications as promising materials for glucose sensors.Nanoscale advances · 2024Review
- Nickel-Atom Doping as a Potential Means to Enhance the Photoluminescence Performance of Carbon Dots.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Carbon dots labeledFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Bifunctional Nitrogen and Fluorine Co-Doped Carbon Dots for Selective Detection of Copper and Sulfide Ions in Real Water Samples.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Carbon dots (CDs) are a strong alternative to conventional fluorescent probes for cell imaging due to their brightness, photostability, tunable fluorescence emission, low toxicity, inexpensive preparation, and chemical diversity. Improving the targeting efficiency by modulation of the surface functional groups and understanding the mechanisms of targeted imaging are the most challenging issues in cell imaging by CDs. Firstly, we briefly discuss important features of fluorescent CDs for live-cell imaging application in this review. Then, the newest modulated CDs for targeted live-cell imaging of whole-cell, cell organelles, pH, ions, small molecules, and proteins are elaborately discussed, and their challenges in these fields are explained.
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