ReviewHeliyon2024
Carbon dot-based fluorescent sensors for pharmaceutical detection: Current innovations, challenges, and future prospects.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- 1,2,3-Triazole-linked DNA biosensors: molecular design to real-time applications.RSC advances · 2026Review
- Carbon Quantum Dots-Enhanced Polyvinyl Alcohol: A Comprehensive Approach to Food Preservation.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2026Review
- Pharmacophore-targeted fluorescence sensing of ibrutinibRSC advances · 2026Article
- Carbon Dot-Based Electrochemical and Optical Sensors for Pharmaceutical Analysis and Point-of-Care Diagnostics.Biosensors · 2026Review
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- Recent progress in biowaste-derived carbon dots for cancer theranostics toward a green solution to toxic metal quantum dots.Discover nano · 2025Review
- Biomimetic Carbon-Based Nanomaterials: From Design Strategies to Next-Generation Biosensing and Theranostic Applications.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Review
- Green carbon dots in the era of AI: sustainable synthesis, intelligent drug delivery, advanced diagnostics, and bioimaging.Turkish journal of biology = Turk biyoloji dergisi · 2025Review
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Abstract
Environmental contamination by pharmaceuticals has become a matter of concern as they are released in sewage systems at trace levels, thus impacting biological systems. Increasing concerns about the low-level occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment demands sensitive and selective monitoring. Owing to their high sensitivity and specificity carbon dots (CDs) have emerged as suitable fluorescent sensors. This review discusses the current scenario of the status of pharmaceuticals in the environment, limitations associated with traditional techniques employed for their detection, and benefits offered by CDs like easy surface modification and tunable optical properties for sensing applications. Several representative means by which CDs interact with other molecules such as inner filter effect (IFE), dynamic quenching (DQ), static quenching (SQ), Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), among others, are also discussed along with co-referencing fluorophores to design sensors. Based on developments described herein, CDs-based sensors can be expected to sense pharmaceuticals ranging from nanogram to picogram, target real-time industrial and spiked sample analysis, etc., which provides direction for future research.
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