Carbon dots in bioimaging, biosensing and therapeutics: a comprehensive review

B Wang, H Cai, GIN Waterhouse, X Qu, B Yang… - Small …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs), comprising crystalline graphitized carbon cores and polymer surface
groups, are currently attracting a lot of interest in biological fields owing to their fluorescent …

Nanomaterial-based therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections

JMV Makabenta, A Nabawy, CH Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections arising from acquired resistance and/or through
biofilm formation necessitate the development of innovative 'outside of the box'therapeutics …

Applications of carbon dots in environmental pollution control: A review

C Long, Z Jiang, J Shangguan, T Qing, P Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the development of carbon-based nanomaterials, carbon dots (CDs) have recently
received increasing attention owing to their unique optical properties, low toxicity, facile …

Positively charged carbon dots with antibacterial and antioxidant dual activities for promoting infected wound healing

X Qu, C Gao, L Fu, Y Chu, JH Wang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bacterial infection and excess reactive oxygen species are key factors that lead to slow or
substantially delayed wound healing. It is crucial to design and develop new nanomaterials …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasmall Fe-doped carbon dots nanozymes for photoenhanced antibacterial therapy and wound healing

Y Liu, B Xu, M Lu, S Li, J Guo, F Chen, X Xiong, Z Yin… - Bioactive materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Pathogenic bacteria pose a devastating threat to public health. However, because of the
growing bacterial antibiotic resistance, there is an urgent need to develop alternative …

Carbon dots as a new class of nanomedicines: opportunities and challenges

B Wang, H Song, X Qu, J Chang, B Yang… - Coordination chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in preclinical and clinical …

An overview of the use of nanozymes in antibacterial applications

L Mei, S Zhu, Y Liu, W Yin, Z Gu, Y Zhao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Topics of bacterial resistance have attracted remarkable scientific interests. Bacterial
infection-related diseases are major public safety issues that lead to millions of deaths …

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 …

Nanotechnology's frontier in combatting infectious and inflammatory diseases: prevention and treatment

Y Huang, X Guo, Y Wu, X Chen, L Feng, N Xie… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammation-associated diseases encompass a range of infectious diseases and non-
infectious inflammatory diseases, which continuously pose one of the most serious threats to …

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 …