Application of carbon quantum dots for fluorescence imaging and drug delivery: a DFT study

There has been a perpetual interest in finding appropriate nanocarriers for drug delivery. Carbon-basedtwo-dimensional materials have emerged as promising candidates for drug carriers. In this paper, we haveinvestigated the adsorption characteristics of a widely used anticancer drug, doxorubicin (DOX), on thecoronene-based quantum dots by density functional theory (DFT) calculations and fluorescence spectroscopy.After the DOX adsorption on the coronene, simultaneous quenching and red-shift in the fluorescence spectrumof the carriers imply that the designed drug delivery systems can be tracked by fluorescence imaging

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Coronene ، Doxorubicin ، fluorescence imaging ، Drug delivery