Roger M. Leblanc Author

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Versatile Carbon Dots: Syntheses, Characterizations and Applications

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Roger M. Leblanc

Carbon dots (CDs) have recently triggered great attention in the research of material science and biomedical engineering due to their unique properties. They have been widely explored for applications in printing, photocatalysis, bioimaging, sensing, drug delivery, and nanomedicine. In this presentation, I will firstly introduce preparations of diverse CDs. Particularly, extensive structural characterizations have been performed to build comprehensive structural models for 3 distinct CD species derived from both top-down and bottom-up approaches.

Then, I will mainly focus on various applications of the CDs developed in our lab, glucose-based CDs could cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) due to the presence of glucose transporter proteins on the BBB, carbon nitride dots conjuga... view more»

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