Highly Photoluminescent Carbon Dots for Multicolor Patterning, Sensors, and Bioimaging

Successful entrapment of carbon dots within flexible free-standing transparent mesoporous organic-inorganic silica hybrid films for photonic applications

“…In the literature, there are several examples where CDs were successfully incorporated into polymer matrices such as polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) [16], polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) [17], polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) [18], polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) [12,19] or gel glass [20]. In most cases the embedded CDs in solid polymeric films showed stable photoluminescence.…”

Mesoporous carbon biomaterials

“…Of the carbon-family members, sp 2 carbon-based materials such as fullerene [4,5], carbon nanotubes [1,[6][7][8][9][10][11], carbon dots [12][13][14], and graphene [15][16][17][18], have been explored for promising applications in biomedicine, including drug delivery, gene transfection, photothermal therapy, photodynamic therapy, biosensing, and even tissue engineering [19][20][21]. For instance, the hollow space in fullerene/carbon nanotubes and large surface-to-volume ratio of graphene can be used for the encapsulation and intracellular delivery of therapeutic agents.…”

Graphene-Based Nanomaterials in Bioimaging

“…imaging is a non-invasive technique based on photons emitted from fluorescent probes (24,69,70). Based on the intrinsic photoluminescence of nano-graphene oxide (nGO), the Dai group for the first time reported B-cell specific antibody Rituxan (anti-CD20) conjugated and polyethylene glycol (PEG) modified GO (nGO-PEG-Rituxan) for Raji Bcells targeted FL imaging using an InGaAs detector under the 658 nm laser excitation (71).…”