Aqueous soluble zinc selenide quantum dots for rapid detection of lead in water, fruit juices and biological fluids

Quantum dots as advanced nanomaterials for food quality and safety applications: A comprehensive review and future perspectives

“…Carbon-based QDs CDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties, drug loading Detection of food analytes (Paydar et al, 2022), active packaging (Khoshkalampour, Ghorbani et al, 2023), intelligent packaging (Liu et al, 2022), nanocarriers (Shu et al, 2017) GQDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties, drug loading Detection of food analytes (Orachorn & Bunkoed, 2021), active packaging (Bakeshlouy Afshar et al, 2024), nanocarriers (Ghanbari et al, 2021) Cadmium-based QDs CdS QDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties Detection of food analytes (He et al, 2022), active packaging (Grzebieniarz et al, 2021) CdSe QDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties, drug loading Detection of food analytes (Li, Wen et al, 2022), nanocarriers (Yang et al, 2017) CdTe QDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties Detection of food analytes (Liang et al, 2022), intelligent packaging (Fu, Wu et al, 2020) Zinc QDs ZnO QDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties, drug loading Detection of food analytes (Sahoo et al, 2018), active packaging (Schmitz et al, 2020), nanocarriers (Flora et al, 2023) ZnS QDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties Detection of food analytes (Sajwan et al, 2021), active packaging (Shojaeiarani et al, 2022) ZnSe QDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties Detection of food analytes (Jayalakshmi et al, 2024) Silicon QDs SiQDs Photoelectric properties, antibacterial properties, drug loading Detection of food analytes (Na et al, 2019), intelligent packaging (Sun et al, 2023) synthesized ionic liquid-organophilic CDs (IL-OCDs) through a hydrothermal method using imidazolium ILs as precursors and regulators to change the properties of the CDs (Figure 4a). Results demonstrated that IL-OCDs, as nanocarriers and delivery systems, showed a loading ratio of up to 69.2% for curcumin.…”