Facile and Green Synthesis of Multicolor Fluorescence Carbon Dots from Curcumin: In Vitro and in Vivo Bioimaging and Other Applications.

ABSTRACT: Early detection is the critical phase in the prognostic strategy of various life-threatening maladies like infectious diseases and cancer. The mortality rate caused by these diseases could be considerably reduced if they were diagnosed in the early stages of disease development. Carbon dots (C-dots), a relatively new and promising candidate in the fluorescent nanomaterial category, possess a perceptible impact on various bioapplications. Herein, we report a one-step facile hydrothermal synthesis that yields a novel surface-passivated carbon dot (CDP) from curcumin (as a green substrate) displaying high aqueous solubility. The physico-chemical characterization of thus synthesized C-dots was accomplished by an UV-visible spectrophotometer, fluorescence spectrophotometer, zetasizer, TEM, and

SUBMITTER: Pal T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6044881 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature