A multifunctional chemical toolbox to engineer carbon dots for biomedical and energy applications

L Ðorđević, F Arcudi, M Cacioppo, M Prato - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Photoluminescent carbon nanoparticles, or carbon dots, are an emerging class of materials
that has recently attracted considerable attention for biomedical and energy applications …

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 …

Artificial photosynthesis systems for solar energy conversion and storage: platforms and their realities

Z Wang, Y Hu, S Zhang, Y Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In natural photosynthesis, photosynthetic organisms such as green plants realize efficient
solar energy conversion and storage by integrating photosynthetic components on the …

The rise of continuous flow biocatalysis–fundamentals, very recent developments and future perspectives

P De Santis, LE Meyer, S Kara - Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis community has witnessed a drastic increase in the number of studies for the use
of enzymes in continuously operated flow reactors. This significant interest arose from the …

Photonic carbon dots as an emerging nanoagent for biomedical and healthcare applications

YJ Chung, J Kim, CB Park - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
As a class of carbon-based nanomaterials, carbon dots (CDs) have attracted enormous
attention because of their tunable optical and physicochemical properties, such as …

Photo-biocatalysis: biotransformations in the presence of light

L Schmermund, V Jurkas, FF Özgen, GD Barone… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Light has received increased attention for various chemical reactions but also in
combination with biocatalytic reactions. Because currently only a few enzymatic reactions …

Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion

X Fang, S Kalathil, E Reisner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents a comprehensive summary of the recent development in semi-artificial
photosynthesis, a biological-material hybrid approach to solar-to-chemical conversion that …

Applications of nanomaterials in asymmetric photocatalysis: recent progress, challenges, and opportunities

X Qiu, Y Zhang, Y Zhu, C Long, L Su, S Liu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Asymmetric catalysis is one of the most attractive strategies to obtain important
enantiomerically pure chemicals with high quality and production. In addition, thanks to the …

Biocatalytic reduction reactions from a chemist's perspective

F Hollmann, DJ Opperman… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reductions play a key role in organic synthesis, producing chiral products with new
functionalities. Enzymes can catalyse such reactions with exquisite stereo‐, regio‐and …

High-photovoltage silicon nanowire for biological cofactor production

E Lineberry, J Kim, J Kim, I Roh, JA Lin… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photocathodic conversion of NAD+ to NADH cofactor is a promising platform for activating
redox biological catalysts and enzymatic synthesis using renewable solar energy. However …