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Multifunctional Carbon Dots Based Nanoparticles Coupling Optical and pH-Dependent Drug Release Properties as Drug Delivery Platforms

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Pages 151-159 | Received 19 Jul 2019, Accepted 03 Feb 2020, Published online: 07 Apr 2020
 

Abstract

A kind of red emissive carbon dots (R-CDs) that were synthesized by a hydrothermal method reacted with PEG polymer (mPEG-CHO) as nanocarriers (R-CD@mPEG-CHO). DOX was selected to be the model drug and loaded on the surface of R-CDs by physical adsorption. The mPEG-CHO polymer reacted with R-CDs and the benzoic acid-amine bond was formed through click reaction, which enabled the R-CD@mPEG-CHO to have pH responsive ability in tumor microenvironment and achieved controlled drug release. And PEGylation can suppress drug burst release in vitro. A potential multi-functional nanocarrier system was successfully built.

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Funding

This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21675091, 21874078), the Taishan Young Scholar Program of Shandong Province (tsqn20161027), the Major Science and Technology Innovation Project of Shandong Province (2018CXGC1407), the Key Research and Development Project of Shandong Province (2016GGX102028, 2016GGX102039, 2017GGX20111), the Innovation Leader Project of Qingdao (168325zhc), and the First Class Discipline Project of Shandong Province.

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