Recent developments of carbon dots in biosensing: A review

C Ji, Y Zhou, RM Leblanc, Z Peng - ACS sensors, 2020 - ACS Publications
Early diagnosis of diseases is of great importance because it increases the chance of a cure
and significantly reduces treatment costs. Thus, development of rapid, sensitive, and reliable …

Aggregation in carbon dots: Special Issue: Emerging Investigators

Y Ru, GIN Waterhouse, S Lu - Aggregate, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) possess outstanding luminescence properties, making them widely used
in optical displays, anti‐counterfeiting systems, bioimaging, and sensors. Presently, there is …

Hydrophobic carbon dots with blue dispersed emission and red aggregation-induced emission

H Yang, Y Liu, Z Guo, B Lei, J Zhuang, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Carbon dots (CDs) have been studied for years as one of the most promising fluorescent
nanomaterials. However, CDs with red or solid-state fluorescence are rarely reported …

The photoluminescence mechanism in carbon dots (graphene quantum dots, carbon nanodots, and polymer dots): current state and future perspective

S Zhu, Y Song, X Zhao, J Shao, J Zhang, B Yang - Nano research, 2015 - Springer
At present, the actual mechanism of the photoluminescence (PL) of fluorescent carbon dots
(CDs) is still an open debate among researchers. Because of the variety of CDs, it is highly …

Applications of graphene quantum dots in biomedical sensors

BD Mansuriya, Z Altintas - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to the proliferative cancer rates, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative disorders,
autoimmune diseases and a plethora of infections across the globe, it is essential to …

Polymeric AIE-based nanoprobes for biomedical applications: recent advances and perspectives

X Zhang, K Wang, M Liu, X Zhang, L Tao, Y Chen… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of polymeric luminescent nanomaterials for biomedical applications has
recently attracted a large amount of attention due to the remarkable advantages of these …

Graphene quantum dots redefine nanobiomedicine

TK Henna, K Pramod - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2020 - Elsevier
Carbon-based nanomaterials have established a prime position as drug delivery carriers. It
is very interesting to see that a carbon nanostructure could be used as a drug too, instead of …

Carbon dots-fed Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 for bioelectricity enhancement

C Yang, H Aslan, P Zhang, S Zhu, Y Xiao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bioelectricity generation, by Shewanella oneidensis (S. oneidensis) MR-1, has become
particularly alluring, thanks to its extraordinary prospects for energy production, pollution …

Multifunctional Cytochrome c: Learning New Tricks from an Old Dog

D Alvarez-Paggi, L Hannibal, MA Castro… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome c (cyt c) is a small soluble heme protein characterized by a relatively flexible
structure, particularly in the ferric form, such that it is able to sample a broad conformational …

Boron-doped graphene quantum dots for selective glucose sensing based on the “abnormal” aggregation-induced photoluminescence enhancement

L Zhang, ZY Zhang, RP Liang, YH Li… - Analytical chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
A hydrothermal approach for the cutting of boron-doped graphene (BG) into boron-doped
graphene quantum dots (BGQDs) has been proposed. Various characterizations reveal that …