2008/10/28 by Hua-yang Fan, Hua‐yang Fan, Xianghua Yu +15
Engineering · Materials Science · Medicine · #Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications #Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics #Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies #Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications #Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
paper · doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.111620
openalex publication_date 2008/10/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/23
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) as novel nanomaterials, have received significant interest in the field of biomedical applications. It is worth noting that a large amount of research is devoted to GQDs-based nanocomposites for cancer treatment, especially for photodynamic therapy (PDT), in that they can act not only as more favorable photosensitizers (PSs) but also nanoplatforms for delivering PSs. In this review, the biological behavior and physicochemical properties of GQDs for PDT are described in detail, and the application of GQDs-based nanocomposites in improved PDT and PDT-based combination therapies is analyzed, which may provide a new strategy for designing efficient PDT systems for cancer treatment.