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Recent advances in carbon dots for bioimaging applications

Hongxia Li, Xu Yan, Deshuai Kong, Rui Jin, Chunyan Sun, Dan Du, Yuehe Lin, Geyu Lu

Nanoscale Horizons · 2019 · 307 citations · 153 references

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Abstract

This review summarized recent advances in CDs-based bioimaging including <italic>in vitro</italic> imaging in delivering CDs into different types of cells and <italic>in vivo</italic> applications in distribution and uptake of CDs, imaging-guild drug delivery and tumor therapeutics.

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