Catalytic and peroxidase-like activity of carbon based-AuPd bimetallic nanocomposite produced using carbon dots as the reductant

2016 ◽  
Vol 930 ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liuqing Yang ◽  
Xiaoying Liu ◽  
Qiujun Lu ◽  
Na Huang ◽  
Meiling Liu ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Qu ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Zhong-Jie Wang ◽  
Shuyan Zhang ◽  
Yejian Yu ◽  
...  

Time-dependent evolutive afterglow materials can increase the security level by providing additional encryption modes in anti-counterfeiting and data encryption. The design of carbon-based materials with dynamic afterglow colors is attractive...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Behi ◽  
Leila Gholami ◽  
Sina Naficy ◽  
Stefano Palomba ◽  
Fariba Dehghani

Carbon dots (CDs) are a latterly synthesised class of carbon-based nanostructures known as zero-dimensional (0D) nanomaterials, which have drawn a great deal of researcher’s attention owing to their distinctive features,...


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-77
Author(s):  
Sumiya Adrita ◽  
Khandaker Tasnim ◽  
Ji Ryu ◽  
Shazid Sharker

Cancer remains one of the most deadly diseases globally, but carbon-based nanomaterials have the potential to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and therapy. Advances in nanotechnology and a better understanding of tumor microenvironments have contributed to novel nanotargeting routes that may bring new hope to cancer patients. Several low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials have shown promising preclinical results; as such, low-dimensional carbon dots (CDs) and their derivatives are considered up-and-coming candidates for cancer treatment. The unique properties of carbon-based nanomaterials are high surface area to volume ratio, chemical inertness, biocompatibility, and low cytotoxicity. It makes them well suited for delivering chemotherapeutics in cancer treatment and diagnosis. Recent studies have shown that the CDs are potential applicants in biomedical sciences, both as nanocarriers and nanotransducers. This review covers the most commonly used CD nanoparticles in nanomedicines intended for the early diagnosis and therapy of cancer.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 2179-2195
Author(s):  
Junjun Liu ◽  
Rui Li ◽  
Bai Yang
Keyword(s):  
New Type ◽  

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 45

Carbon dots (CDs) are a group of relatively new carbon-based spherical nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters less than 10 nm. They are widely present in nature and can also be synthesized using various carbon-based substances as precursors by either top-down or bottom-up approaches. They are well characterized for tunable surface functionality, excellent photoluminescence (PL), high photostability and water dispersity, good biocompatibility, and nontoxicity. Also, they display different sizes and surface chemistry depending on the preparation methods, and precursors applied. Applications of CDs in drug delivery, bioimaging, sensing, optics, photocatalysis, and other nanotechnology fields are rapidly rising due to their aforementioned unique properties. In this presentation, I will focus on the preparation, characterization and several significant applications of the CDs developed in our group. Specifically, I will introduce one type of CDs in yellow powder (Y-CDs) together with their amphiphilicity, tunable PL, and nontoxicity. In addition, Y-CDs showed an excellent permeability of body tissues, even including the blood-brain barrier (BBB) via passive diffusion using a zebrafish model. Furthermore, Y-CDs exhibited a strong inhibitory effect on the secretion of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and beta-amyloid (Aβ), which is significant for the future treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Considering their excellent permeability, Y-CDs are also promising drug nanocarriers for the treatment of diverse viral diseases such as COVID-19. Another work I would like to share with the public is that CDs have proved to be promising Lego-like building blocks for the assembly of novel versatile drug nanocarriers to simultaneously fulfill multitasks.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-159
Author(s):  
Shamroza Mubarik ◽  
Nawal Qureshi ◽  
Zainab Sattar ◽  
Aqeela Shaheen ◽  
Ambreen Kalsoom ◽  
...  

The utilization of biomass waste to produce valuable products has extraordinary advantages as far as both the economy and climate are concerned, which have become particularly significant lately. The large-scale manufacturing of agricultural waste, mainly rice by-products (rice husk, rice straw, and rice bran), empowers them to be the most broadly examined biomasses as they contain lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose. Rice waste was first used to incorporate bulk materials, while the manufacturing of versatile nanostructures from rice waste at low cost has been developed in recent years and attracts much consideration nowadays. Carbon-based nanomaterials including graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon dots, fullerenes, and carbon nanofibers have tremendous potential in climate and energy-related applications. Various methods have been reported to synthesize high-value carbon nanomaterials, but the use of green technology for the synthesis of carbon nanomaterials is most common nowadays because of the abundant availability of the starting precursor, non-toxicity, low fabrication cost, ease of modification, and eco-friendly nature; therefore, reusing low-value biomass waste for the processing of renewable materials to fabricate high-value products is remarkable. Carbon nanomaterials derived from rice waste have broad applications in various disciplines owing to their distinctive physicochemical, electrical, optical, mechanical, thermal, and enhanced biocompatibility properties. The main objective of this review and basic criteria of selecting examples and explanations is to highlight the green routes for the synthesis of carbon nanomaterials—i.e., graphene, carbon nanotubes, and carbon dots—from rice biomass waste, and their extensive applications in biomedical research (bio-imaging), environmental (water remediation), and energy-related (electrodes for supercapacitors, Li-ion battery, fuel cells, and solar cells) applications. This review summarizes recent advancements, challenges, and trends for rice waste obtained from renewable resources for utilization in the fabrication of versatile carbon-based nanomaterials.


Author(s):  
Xin Liu ◽  
Daniele Benetti ◽  
Federico Rosei

Carbon dots (Cdots), are emerging as eco-friendly alternative luminophore for luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs), due to their environmental and economical friendliness, and simple synthesis using abundant carbon-based sources. However, their...


2011 ◽  
Vol 1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Sun ◽  
T.-H. Teng ◽  
Md. H. Rashid ◽  
M. Krysmann ◽  
P. Dallas ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTWe report an interesting property of carbon dots: they emit light under charge injection. We synthesized carbon dots in diameter about 20 nm using wet chemistry methods. The photoluminescence quantum efficiency of the carbon dots dissolved in water was about 11%. We observed strong electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) from the sample. This observation of ECL from carbon dots indicates that they could be a good candidate material for carbon-based electroluminescent devices.


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