Antibacterial carbon dots: mechanisms, design, and applications

WB Zhao, KK Liu, Y Wang, FK Li, R Guo… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The increase in antibiotic resistance promotes the situation of developing new antibiotics at
the forefront, while the development of non‐antibiotic pharmaceuticals is equally significant …

Recent advances of carbon dots as new antimicrobial agents

P Li, L Sun, S Xue, D Qu, L An, X Wang, Z Sun - SmartMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many rapid antimicrobial agents have developed
intensively. Carbon dots (CDs), a new type of carbon‐based nanomaterials, shows great …

Carbon dots in environmental treatment and protection applications

NA Tran, NT Hien, NM Hoang, HLT Dang, T Van Quy… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) have recently received much attention due to their superior properties,
such as quantum-sized, strong light absorption, tunable luminescence with high quantum …

Antibacterial efficiency of carbon dots against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria: A review

M Varghese, M Balachandran - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The nontoxic characteristics and inherent antibacterial potency of Carbon dots (CDs) have
earned immense attention in the last few years. As the increasing antibiotic resistance of …

Antibacterial Carbon Dots‐Based Composites

S Huang, Y Song, JR Zhang, X Chen, JJ Zhu - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence and global spread of bacterial resistance to conventionally used antibiotics
have highlighted the urgent need for new antimicrobial agents that might replace antibiotics …

Ethanol-derived white emissive carbon dots: the formation process investigation and multi-color/white LEDs preparation

B Wang, H Song, Z Tang, B Yang, S Lu - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted much attention due to their excellent photoelectric
properties and potential applications. Although previous studies have shown that almost all …

Carbon dots as an emergent class of antimicrobial agents

M Ghirardello, J Ramos-Soriano, MC Galan - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance is a recognized global challenge. Tools for bacterial detection can
combat antimicrobial resistance by facilitating evidence-based antibiotic prescribing, thus …

Flexible Ag@LiNbO3/PVDF Composite Film for Piezocatalytic Dye/Pharmaceutical Degradation and Bacterial Disinfection

G Singh, M Sharma, R Vaish - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
A flexible poly (vinylidene difluoride)(PVDF) composite film embedding LiNbO3 ceramics
decorated with silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) has been synthesized using the solvent casting …

Levofloxacin-based carbon dots to enhance antibacterial activities and combat antibiotic resistance

LN Wu, YJ Yang, LX Huang, Y Zhong, Y Chen, YR Gao… - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is an urgent issue, especially in treating
infectious diseases. Nowadays, bacterial infections draw great attention to research and …

Carbon dots derived from folic acid as an ultra-succinct smart antimicrobial nanosystem for selective killing of S. aureus and biofilm eradication

M Yu, X Guo, H Lu, P Li, R Huang, C Xu, X Gong… - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing efficient and safe approach to counteract the bacterial infections has become an
urgent clinical challenge. In this work, we report folic acid derived carbon dots (FA-CDs) …