| Carbon Quantum Dots from Natural Resources and Heterocyclic Compounds; from Synthesis to Medical Applications |
| Paper ID : 1073-ISCH |
| Authors |
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Hanan Basioni Ahmed1, Hossam ES Emam2, Mary Magdy Mikhail *3 1Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Ain‑Helwan 11795, Cairo, Egypt 2Department of Pretreatment and Finishing of Cellulosic Fibers, Textile Research and Technology Institute, National Research Centre, 33 EL Buhouth St., Dokki 12622, Giza, Egypt 3Faculty of science, Helwan University |
| Abstract |
| Recently, nanotechnology acquired great importance because of its wonderful characteristics. There are different allotropes of carbon nanostructures due to different arrangements of carbon atoms in addition to various sizes and shapes of carbon nanostructures. Carbon quantum dots are special class of carbon nanostructures with spherical size of one to ten nanometers. Synthesis techniques of carbon quantum dots are diverse from top-down to bottom-up techniques but most of them are complicated, energy consuming, time-consuming and expensive, however, the hydrothermal technique has advantages of high yield, easy control and simplicity than other synthesis methods. Due to high availability of carbon precursors, biocompatibility, high surface area, low cost, high photostability and low cytotoxicity properties of carbon quantum dots, they have diverse medical applications which are currently summarized in the presented review. Moreover, the current review represents an overview for the compatibility of various natural resources, heterocyclic compounds and saccharides as precursors for successive clustering of carbon quantum dots |
| Keywords |
| CQDs, synthesis techniques, natural resources, heterocyclic compounds, medical applications. |
| Status: Abstract Accepted (Poster Presentation) |