Green Synthesis of Bifunctional Fluorescent Carbon Dots from Garlic for Cellular Imaging and Free Radical Scavenging

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 31, 2015, Pages 17054-17060

  Zhao, Shaojing ^a   Lan, Minhuan ^a   Zhu, Xiaoyue ^a   Xue, Hongtao ^a   Ng, Tsz Wai ^a   Meng, Xiangmin ^b   Lee, Chun Sing ^a   Wang, Pengfei ^b   Zhang, Wenjun ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon dots; fluorescence; multicolor imaging; radical scavenging activity; reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IONIC STRENGTH; METAL IONS; METALS;

CARBON DOTS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING; HIGH IONIC STRENGTH; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; MULTICOLOR IMAGING; RADICAL SCAVENGING ACTIVITY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; WATER DISPERSIBILITY;

FREE RADICALS;

CARBON; FLUORESCENT DYE; QUANTUM DOT; SCAVENGER;

CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GARLIC; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HEAT; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PH; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CARBON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GARLIC; GREEN CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 84939127727     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03228     Document Type: Article

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