Luminescent quantum dots: Synthesis, optical properties, bioimaging and toxicity

J Sobhanan, JV Rival, A Anas, ES Shibu… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Luminescent nanomaterials such as semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) and quantum dots
(QDs) attract much attention to optical detectors, LEDs, photovoltaics, displays, biosensing …

Quantum dots in biomedical applications

AM Wagner, JM Knipe, G Orive, NA Peppas - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Semiconducting nanoparticles, more commonly known as quantum dots, possess unique
size and shape dependent optoelectronic properties. In recent years, these unique …

Biodegradable black phosphorus-based nanospheres for in vivo photothermal cancer therapy

J Shao, H Xie, H Huang, Z Li, Z Sun, Y Xu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Photothermal therapy (PTT) offers many advantages such as high efficiency and minimal
invasiveness, but clinical adoption of PTT nanoagents have been stifled by unresolved …

Production and status of bacterial cellulose in biomedical engineering

M Moniri, A Boroumand Moghaddam, S Azizi… - Nanomaterials, 2017 - mdpi.com
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a highly pure and crystalline material generated by aerobic
bacteria, which has received significant interest due to its unique physiochemical …

Advances in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications of functional bacterial cellulose-based nanocomposites

H Ullah, F Wahid, HA Santos, T Khan - Carbohydrate polymers, 2016 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) synthesized by certain species of bacteria, is a fascinating
biopolymer with unique physical and mechanical properties. BC's applications range from …

In Vivo Biodistribution and Toxicology of Carboxylated Graphene Quantum Dots

M Nurunnabi, Z Khatun, KM Huh, SY Park, DY Lee… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Photoluminescent graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have fascinating optical and electronic
properties with numerous promising applications in biomedical engineering. In this work, we …

Nanotoxicity assessment of quantum dots: from cellular to primate studies

KT Yong, WC Law, R Hu, L Ye, L Liu… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Tremendous research efforts have been devoted to fabricating high quality quantum dots
(QDs) for applications in biology and medicine. Much of this research was pursued with an …

Upconverting and NIR emitting rare earth based nanostructures for NIR-bioimaging

E Hemmer, N Venkatachalam, H Hyodo, A Hattori… - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, significant progress was achieved in the field of nanomedicine and
bioimaging, but the development of new biomarkers for reliable detection of diseases at an …

Suspension arrays based on nanoparticle-encoded microspheres for high-throughput multiplexed detection

Y Leng, K Sun, X Chen, W Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Spectrometrically or optically encoded microsphere based suspension array technology
(SAT) is applicable to the high-throughput, simultaneous detection of multiple analytes …

[HTML][HTML] Redox responsive nanoparticle encapsulating black phosphorus quantum dots for cancer theranostics

H Chen, Z Liu, B Wei, J Huang, X You, J Zhang… - Bioactive materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Effective cancer treatment puts high demands for cancer theranostics. For cancer
diagnostics, optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology (including photothermal …