Issue 9, 2019
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Materials Chemistry Frontiers

BODIPY@carbon dot nanocomposites for enhanced photodynamic activity†

Ya Su,a   Siyu Lu, ORCID logo b   Pengli Gao,a   Min Zheng ORCID logo *a  and  Zhigang Xie ORCID logo *c  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Life Science, Advanced Institute of Materials Science, Changchun University of Technology, 2055 Yanan Street, Changchun, Jilin 130012, P. R. China
E-mail: zhengm@ciac.ac.cn

b College of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P. R. China

c State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
E-mail: xiez@ciac.ac.cn

Abstract

One stumbling block for the biomedical applications of BODIPY is its poor water solubility. Herein, a type of nanocomposite named CBNPs was fabricated via the noncovalent interactions between carbon dots (CDs) and BODIPY, in which the solubility of BODIPY was improved significantly, followed by enhanced photodynamic therapy (PDT) effects through a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) mechanism. This work provides a conventional strategy to improve the bioavailability of hydrophobic functional materials and demonstrates the great potential of CD-based hybrids in biomedical fields.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00257J
Article type
Research Article
Submitted
23 Apr 2019
Accepted
24 May 2019
First published
24 May 2019

Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 1747-1753

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BODIPY@carbon dot nanocomposites for enhanced photodynamic activity

Y. Su, S. Lu, P. Gao, M. Zheng and Z. Xie, Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, 3, 1747 DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00257J

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