Unlocking the potential of green-engineered carbon quantum dots for sustainable packaging biomedical applications and water purification

IF 19.3 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Advances in Colloid and Interface Science Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-27 DOI:10.1016/j.cis.2025.103414

Yasaman Esmaeili , Farzad Toiserkani , Zeinab Qazanfarzadeh , Mehran Ghasemlou , Minoo Naebe , Colin J. Barrow , Wendy Timms , Shima Jafarzadeh

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Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) with well-defined architectures offer highly fascinating properties such as excellent water-solubility, exceptional luminescence, large specific surface area, non-toxicity, biocompatibility and tuneable morphological, structural, and chemical features. This review comprehensively overviews recent breakthroughs and critical milestones in the green synthesis of CQDs from renewable sources and provides guidance for their sustainable development towards fulfilling the goals of green chemistry. It also discusses the interaction of CQDs with various biopolymers to improve the material performance and functionality. This paper also highlights the latest technological applications of CQDs in numerous fields, including sustainable packaging, biosensing, bioimaging, cancer therapy, drug delivery as well as water purification. Finally, it summarizes the main challenges and provides an outlook on the future directions of CQDs in packaging and biomedical fields. This review can act as a roadmap to guide researchers for tailoring the properties of CQDs for important composite and biomedical fields.

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释放绿色工程碳量子点在可持续包装生物医学应用和水净化方面的潜力。

碳量子点（CQDs）具有良好的结构，具有优异的水溶性，特殊的发光，大的比表面积，无毒性，生物相容性和可调的形态，结构和化学特征等令人着迷的特性。本文综述了可再生能源绿色合成CQDs的最新突破和关键里程碑，并为其实现绿色化学目标的可持续发展提供了指导。还讨论了CQDs与各种生物聚合物的相互作用，以提高材料的性能和功能。本文还重点介绍了CQDs在可持续包装、生物传感、生物成像、癌症治疗、药物输送和水净化等众多领域的最新技术应用。最后，总结了CQDs在包装和生物医学领域的主要挑战，并对CQDs的未来发展方向进行了展望。本文综述可以作为一个路线图，指导研究人员在重要的复合和生物医学领域定制CQDs的特性。

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Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 化学-物理化学

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28.50

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2.60%

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175

审稿时长

31 days

期刊介绍： "Advances in Colloid and Interface Science" is an international journal that focuses on experimental and theoretical developments in interfacial and colloidal phenomena. The journal covers a wide range of disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, and technology. The journal accepts review articles on any topic within the scope of colloid and interface science. These articles should provide an in-depth analysis of the subject matter, offering a critical review of the current state of the field. The author's informed opinion on the topic should also be included. The manuscript should compare and contrast ideas found in the reviewed literature and address the limitations of these ideas. Typically, the articles published in this journal are written by recognized experts in the field.