From cow manure to bioactive carbon dots: a light-up probe for bioimaging investigations, glucose detection and potential immunotherapy agent for melanoma skin cancer

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Investigation of the immunological effect of light-up carbon-dots on cancer-bearing mice.

Porphyrin-derived carbon dots for an enhanced antiviral activity targeting the CTD of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid

“…However, the other applications of por-CDs could be explored further. It has been known that carbon dots possessed a fluorescence activity, thus making them capable of being used in many biomedical applications, including diagnostics, biosensors, photoacoustic imaging, therapeutics, and the simultaneous therapy/imaging applications called theranostics [25,26,[60][61][62]. As shown in the previous studies, due to their great penetration capacity into cells, carbon dots increased the antimicrobial efficiency of porphyrin [63] and also improved its anticancer activity in photodynamic and photothermal therapy [64,65].…”

Current trends in carbon-based quantum dots development from solid wastes and their applications

“…CQDs are synthesized from a variety of biodegradable sources, such as manure (D’Angelis do E. S. Barbosa et al 2015 ; Horst et al 2021 ), hair (Guo et al 2016 ; Liu et al 2014 ; Singh et al 2020 ), plant roots (D’souza et al 2018 ; Yu et al 2019 ), stems (Vandarkuzhali et al 2017 ), fruit and vegetable peels and shells (Ang et al 2020 ; Atchudan et al 2021 ; Bankoti et al 2017 ; Cheng et al 2017 ; Hu et al 2021 ; Prasannan and Imae 2013 ; Qureshi et al 2021 ; Rajamanikandan et al 2021 ; Surendran et al 2020 ; Tyagi et al 2016 ; Vandarkuzhali et al 2018 ; Wang et al 2020 ; Xue et al 2016 ; Yang et al 2021 ), tea waste (Chen et al 2019 ; Zhu et al 2019 ), wheat straw (S. Liu et al 2021a , b ; Yuan et al 2015 ), animal shell (Gedda et al 2016 ; Yao et al 2017 ), expired milk (Athika et al 2019 ; Su et al 2018 ), feathers (Liu et al 2015 ; Ye et al 2017 ), egg shell (Pramanik et al 2018 ; Wang et al 2012 ; Ye et al 2020 ), whey (Devi et al 2017 ), waste paper (Devi et al 2018 ; Jeong et al 2018 ; Park et al 2020 ), cat feedstocks (Ahn et al 2019 ), soot (Thulasi et al 2020 ; Tripathi et al 2014 ; Venkatesan et al 2019 ), waste oil (Y. Hu et al 2014a , b ; Mahat and Shamsudin 2020 ), petroleum coke (Wang et al 2015a ), sugarcane waste (Pandiyan et al 2020 ; Xu-Cheng et al 2018 ), rice waste (Anthony et al 2020 ; Nguyen et al 2021 ), and wa...…”

Carbon dot engineered membranes for separation – a comprehensive review and current challenges

“…Given the abundance of carbon sources both natural and synthetic, there have been many efforts to synthesize CDs from a wide range of carbon-containing materials such as chemicals, 24 polymers, 25 proteins, 26 vitamins, 27 plant and fruit waste, 28 grain waste, 29 and even animal and human waste. [30][31][32] This enables the bottom-up approach to be a more facile and eco-friendly greener approach. The bottom-up approach includes a variety of synthetic routes such as pyrolysis, hydrothermal, microwave, and sonochemical methods.…”