Jia Xu, Bing-Bing Huang, Chun-Mei Lai, Yu-Sheng Lu, Jing-Wei Shao
As a sort of fluorescent carbon nanomaterial with a particle size of less than 10 nm, carbon dots (CDs) have their own merits of good dispersibility in water, stable optical properties, strong chemical inertness, stable optical properties, and good biosecurity. These excellent peculiarities facilitated them like sensing, imaging, medicine, catalysis, and optoelectronics, making them a new star in the field of nanotechnology. In particular, the development of CDs in the fields of chemical probes, imaging, cancer therapy, antibacterial and drug delivery has become a hot topic in current research...
April 21, 2024: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology. B, Biology