title: Magnetic and fluorescent carbon-based nanohybrids for multi-modal imaging and magnetic field/NIR light responsive drug carriers.
abstract: Carbon nanomaterials have gained significant momentum as promising candidate materials for biomedical applications due to their unique structure and properties. After functionalization with magnetic and fluorescent components, the resultant carbon-based nanohybrids can serve not only as magnetic resonance and fluorescence imaging contrast agents, but also as photothermally/magneto-thermally responsive drug carriers for combined photothermo/chemotherapy. This mini-review summarizes the latest developments and applications and addresses the future perspectives of carbon-based magnetic and fluorescent nanohybrids in the biomedical field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The College of Staten Island, and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. shuiqin.zhou@csi.cuny.edu.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shuiqin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D003287:Contrast Media / Q000737:chemistry; D004337:Drug Carriers / Q000737:chemistry*; D065546:Drug Liberation; D005453:Fluorescence; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D004337:Drug Carriers; D002244:Carbon