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Biological and chemical applications of carbon dots
We employ carbon dots (nanoscale fluorescent carbonaceous nanoparticles) in varied applications, including chemo- and bio-sensing, cell imaging, optics, theranostics, and composite materials. Importantly, we have demonstrated that the carbon building blocks endow the produced materials with molecular recognition capabilities, obviating the need for post-synthesis modification of the carbon dots.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Multispectral and circular polarization-sensitive carbon dot polydiacetylene capacitive photodetector, Nitzan Shauloff, Rajesh Bisht, Yury Turkulets, Rajendran Manikandan, Ahiud Morag, Avi Lehrer, Joshua H. Baraban, Ilan Shalish, Raz Jelinek, Small, 2023, 19 (31), 2206519.
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Genistein carbon dots exhibit antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects in vitro, Kumar Sagar Jaiswal, Orit Malka, Nitzan Shauloff, Marina Bersudsky, Elena Voronov, Bhawna Gupta, Raz Jelinek, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2023, 223, 113173.
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Scavenging neurotoxic aldehydes by lysine carbon dots, Daniel Bloch, Michele Sandre, Shani Ben Zichri, Anna Masato, Sofiya Kolusheva, Luigi Babaco, Raz Jelinek, Nanoscale Advances, 2023, 5, 1356-1367.
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Resveratrol Carbon Dots Disrupt Mitochondrial Function in Cancer Cells, Shani Ben-Zichri, Sathish Rajendran, Susanta K. Bhunia, Raz Jelinek, Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2022, 33, 9, 1663-1671.
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Metal-catalyst-free gas-phase synthesis of long-chain hydrocarbons, Lidia Martinez, Pablo Merino, Gonzalo Santoro, Jose Martinez, Katsanoulis Stergios, Jesse Ault, Alvaro Mayoral, Luis Vazquez, Mario Accolla, Alexandre Dazzi, Jeremie Mathurin, Ferenc Borondics, Enrique Blázquez-Blázquez, Nitzan Shauloff, Rosa Lebron-Aguilar, Jesus Quintanilla, Raz Jelinek, José Cernicharo, Howard Stone, Victor de la Pena O'Shea, Pedro de Andres, George Haller, Gary Ellis, Nature Communications, 2021, 12, Article number: 5937.
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Triphenylphosphonium-Derived Bright Green Fluorescent Carbon Dots for Mitochondrial Targeting and Rapid Selective Detection of Tetracycline, Sathish Rajendran, Shani Ben Zichri, Varsha UshaVipinachandran, Raz Jelinek, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, ChemNanoMat, 2021, 7, 545-552.
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Carbon Dot-Polymer Nanoporous Membrane for Recyclable Sunlight-Sterilized Facemasks, Seema Singh, Nitzan Shauloff, Chetan P. Sharma, Christopher J. Arnusch, Raz Jelinek, Journal of Colloids and Interface Science, 2021, 592, 342-348.
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Sniffing Bacteria with a Carbon-Dot Artificial Nose, Nitzan Shaulof, Ahiud Morag, Karin Yaniv, Seema Singh, Ravit Malishev, Ofra Paz-Tal, Lior Rokach, Raz Jelinek, Nano-Micro Letters, 2021, 13 (1), 1-15.
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Tyrosine carbon dots inhibit fibrillation and toxicity of the human Islet amyloid polypeptide, Daniel Bloch, Shani Ben Zichri, Sofiya Kolusheva, Raz Jelinek, Nanoscale Advances, 2020, 13, 5866-5873. (Article selected to appear in a special collection on “Quantum and carbon dots”).
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Sunlight-activated phase transformation in carbon dot-hydrogels facilitates water purification and optical switching Seema Singh, Raz Jelinek, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2020, 2, 2810-2818.
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Solar-Mediated Oil-Spill Cleanup by a Carbon Dot-Polyurethane Sponge, Seema Singh, Raz Jelinek, Carbon, 2020, 160, 196-203.
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N,S-doped carbon dots as dual-functional modifiers to boost bio-electricity generation of individually-modified bacterial cells, Dan Guo, Hui-Fang Wei, Rong-Bin Song, Jiaju Fu, Xuanzhao Lu, Raz Jelinek, Qianhao Min, Jian-Rong Zhang, Qichun Zhang, Jun-Jie Zhu, Nano Energy, 2019, 2019, 63, 103875.
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Graphene Quantum Dots Wrapped Gold Nanoparticles with Integrated Enhancement Mechanisms as Sensitive and Homogeneous Substrates for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Xuran Miao, Shengping Wen, Yu Su, Jiaju Fu, Xiaojun Luo, Ping Wu, Chenxin Cai, Raz Jelinek, Li-Ping Jiang, Jun-Jie Zhu, Analytical Chemistry, 2019, 91, 7295-7303.
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Solar-Enabled Water Remediation via Carbon-Dot/Hydrogel Composites, Seema Singh, Nitzan Shauloff, Raz Jelinek, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019, 7, 13186-13194.
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Elastic Carbon Dot/Polymer Films for Fluorescent Tensile Sensing and Mechano-Optical Tuning, Nitzan Shauloff, Sagarika Bhattacharya, Raz Jelinek, Carbon, 2019, 152, 363-371. Featured on the journal cover.
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Selective labeling and growth inhibition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by aminoguanidine carbon dots, Gil Otis, Sagarika Bhattacharya, Orit Malka, Priyanka Bolel, Angel Porgador, Sofiya Kolusheva, Raz Jelinek, ACS Infection Diseases, 2019, 5, 292-302.
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Fluorescent Self-Healing Carbon Dot / Polymer Gel, Sagarika Bhattacharya, Ravindra Phatake, Shiran Nabha Barnea, Nicholas Zerby, Rafi Shikler, N. Gabriel Lemcoff, Raz Jelinek, ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 1433-1442.
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Porous Silicon Bragg Reflector/Carbon Dot Hybrids: Synthesis, Nanostructure and Optical Properties, Naama Massad-Ivanir, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Raz Jelinek, Ester Segal Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018, 6, Article 574.
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“On/off/on” hydrogen-peroxide sensor with hemoglobin-functionalized carbon dots", Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Susmita Dolai, Hongchen Sun, Raz Jelinek, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 2018, i270, 223-230.
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Lysine-Derived Carbon Dots for Chiral Inhibition of Prion Peptide Fibril Assembly, Elad Arad, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Juergen Jopp, Sofiya Kolusheva, Hanna Rapaport, Raz Jelinek, Advanced Therapeutics, 2018, 1, 1800006.
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Carbon dot - porous silicon bimodal biosensor", Naama Massad-Ivanir, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Ester Segal, Raz Jelinek, NPG Asia Materials, 2018, 10, e463.
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Thenoyltrifluoroacetone (TTA)-Carbon Dot/Aerogel Fluorescent Sensor for Lanthanide and Actinide Ions", Susmita Dolai, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Leila Zeiri, Ofra Paz-Tal, Raz Jelinek, ACS Omega, 2017, 2, 9288-9295.
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Carbon Dots–Plasmonics Coupling Enables Energy Transfer and Provides Unique Chemical Signatures", Lihi Efremshkin, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Raz Jelinek, Adi Salomon, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2017, 8, 6080-6085.
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Nitric oxide sensing through azo-dye formation on carbon dots", Sagarika Bhattacharya, Biswarup Chakraborty, Rhitajit Sarkar, Angel Porgador, Raz Jelinek, ACS Sensors, 2017, 2, 1215-1224.
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Bifunctional Carbon-Dot-WS2 Nanorods for Photothermal Therapy and Cell Imaging, Sukhendu Nandi, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Leila Zeiri, Maayan Pour, Iftach Nachman, Daniel Raichman, Jean-Paul Moshe Lellouche, Raz Jelinek, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2017, 23, 963-969.
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”Carbon-dot-aerogel sensor for aromatic volatile organic compounds, Susmita Dolai, Susanta Bhunia, Raz Jelinek, Sensors and Actuators B. Chemical, 2017, 241, 607-613.
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In vitro reactive oxygen species (ROS) sensing by a carbon-dot-ascorbic acid hydrogel, Sagarika Bhattacharya, Rhitajit Sarkar, Sukhendu Nandi, Angel Porgador, Raz Jelinek, Analytical Chemistry, 2017, 89, 830-836.
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Carbon-dot-hydrogel for esterase-mediated bacterial detection, Sagarika Bhattacharya, Sukhendu Nandi, Raz Jelinek, RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 588-594.
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Carbon-Dot/Silver-Nanoparticle Flexible SERS-Active Films, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Leila Zeiri, Joydeb Manna, Sukhendu Nandi, Raz Jelinek, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016, 8, 25637-25643.
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Lipid-bilayer dynamics probed by a carbon dot-phospholipid conjugate, Sukhendu Nandi, Ravit Malishev, Sofiya Kolusheva, Jurgen Jopp, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Raz Jelinek, Biophysical Journal, 2016, 110, 2016-2025.
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Imaging Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm extracellular polymer scaffolds with amphiphilic carbon dots, M. Ritenberg, S. Nandi, S. Kolusheva, R. Dandelia, M.M. Meijler, Raz Jelinek, ACS Chemical Biology, 2016, 11, 5, 1265-1270.
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Imaging cancer cells expressing the folate receptor with carbon dots produced from folic acid, S.K. Bhunia, A. Maity, S. Nandi, D. Stepensky, Raz Jelinek, ChemBioChem, 2016, 17 614-619.
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Tunable light-emitting carbon-dot/polymer flexible films prepared through one-pot synthesis, S.K. Bhunia, S. Nandi, R. Shikler, Raz Jelinek, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 3400-3406.
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Bacterial detection with amphiphilic carbon dots, Sukhendu Nandi, Margarita Ritenberg, Raz Jelinek, Analyst, 2015, 140, 4232-4237.
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Unilamellar vesicles from amphiphilic graphene quantum dots, Sukhendu Nandi, Sofiya Kolusheva, Ravit Malishev, T. P. Vinod, Alexander Trachtenberg, Raz Jelinek, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2015, 21, 7755-7759.
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Membrane analysis with amphiphilic carbon dots, Sukhendu Nandi, Ravit Butbul, Kaviya Parambath Kootery, Yelena Mirsky, Sofiya Kolusheva, Raz Jelinek, ChemComm, 2014, 50(71), 10299-10302.