Smart nanomaterials in cancer theranostics: challenges and opportunities

BK Kashyap, VV Singh, MK Solanki, A Kumar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer is ranked as the second leading cause of death globally. Traditional cancer
therapies including chemotherapy are flawed, with off-target and on-target toxicities on the …

Nanocarbons for biology and medicine: sensing, imaging, and drug delivery

N Panwar, AM Soehartono, KK Chan, S Zeng… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanocarbons with different dimensions (eg, 0D fullerenes and carbon nanodots, 1D carbon
nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons, 2D graphene and graphene oxides, and 3D …

Carbon-based nanomaterials for biomedical applications: a recent study

D Maiti, X Tong, X Mou, K Yang - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The study of carbon-based nanomaterials (CBNs) for biomedical applications has attracted
great attention due to their unique chemical and physical properties including thermal …

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) for bioimaging and drug delivery applications: a review

MC Biswas, MT Islam, PK Nandy… - ACS Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Quantum dots (QDs) exhibit unique physicochemical and optical properties that are suitable
for photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes, and optoelectronic devices; however, unlike …

Cellular uptake and in vivo distribution of mesenchymal-stem-cell-derived extracellular vesicles are protein corona dependent

R Liam-Or, FN Faruqu, A Walters, S Han, L Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from mesenchymal stem cells are promising
nanotherapeutics in liver diseases due to their regenerative and immunomodulatory …

Harnessing albumin as a carrier for cancer therapies

EN Hoogenboezem, CL Duvall - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Serum albumin, a natural ligand carrier that is highly concentrated and long-circulating in
the blood, has shown remarkable promise as a carrier for anti-cancer agents. Albumin is …

Hyaluronic acid and albumin based nanoparticles for drug delivery

C Lei, XR Liu, QB Chen, Y Li, JL Zhou, LY Zhou… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Albumin, a multifunctional protein, is widely used to prepare nanocarriers. Hyaluronic acid
(HA) is a natural glycosaminoglycan that can specifically bind receptors, such as cluster of …

Glowing graphene quantum dots and carbon dots: properties, syntheses, and biological applications

XT Zheng, A Ananthanarayanan, KQ Luo, P Chen - small, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and carbon dots (C‐dots) have gained
tremendous attention for their enormous potentials for biomedical applications, owing to …

New generation cadmium-free quantum dots for biophotonics and nanomedicine

G Xu, S Zeng, B Zhang, MT Swihart, KT Yong… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes recent progress in the design and applications of cadmium-free
quantum dots (Cd-free QDs), with an emphasis on their role in biophotonics and …

Fluorescence and sensing applications of graphene oxide and graphene quantum dots: a review

P Zheng, N Wu - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene oxide and graphene quantum dots are attractive fluorophores that are
inexpensive, nontoxic, photostable, water‐soluble, biocompatible, and environmentally …