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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Biowaste-Derived Carbon Dots: A Perspective on Biomedical Potentials.

Navid Rabiee, Siavash Iravani, Rajender S Varma

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Navid RabieeSchool of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6945-8541
Siavash IravaniFaculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 81746-73461 Isfahan, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-3985-7928
Rajender S VarmaRegional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University in Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-9731-6228

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Today, sustainable and natural resources including biowastes have been considered attractive starting materials for the fabrication of biocompatible and biodegradable carbon dots (CDs) due to the benefits of availability, low cost, biorenewability, and environmentally benign attributes. These carbonaceous nanomaterials have been widely explored in the field of sensing/imaging, optoelectronics, photocatalysis, drug/gene delivery, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and cancer theranostics. Designing multifunctional biowaste-derived CDs with a high efficacy-to-toxicity ratio for sustained and targeted drug delivery, along with imaging potentials, opens a new window of opportunity toward theranostic applications. However, crucial challenges regarding the absorption/emission wavelength, up-conversion emission/multiphoton fluorescence mechanisms, and phosphorescence of these CDs still need to be addressed to attain the maximum functionality and efficacy. Future studies ought to focus on optimizing the synthesis techniques/conditions, evaluating the influence of nucleation/growth process on structures/properties, controlling their morphology/size, and finding the photoluminescence mechanisms. Reproducibility of synthesis techniques is another critically important factor that needs to be addressed in the future. Herein, the recent developments related to the biowaste-derived CDs with respect to their biomedical applications are deliberated, focusing on important challenges and future perspectives.

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CarbonQuantum DotsDiagnostic ImagingDrug Delivery SystemsReproducibility of ResultsCarbonbiocompatibilitybiomedical applicationsbiowaste-derived carbon dotsgreen chemistrysustainabilityvalorization

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PMID36234727
PMCPMC9573568

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