Advances in Biologically Applicable Graphene-Based 2D Nanomaterials
Climate change and increasing contamination of the environment, due to anthropogenic activities, are accompanied with a growing negative impact on human life. Nowadays, humanity is threatened by the increasing incidence of difficult-to-treat cancer and various infectious diseases caused by resistant...
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| description | Climate change and increasing contamination of the environment, due to anthropogenic activities, are accompanied with a growing negative impact on human life. Nowadays, humanity is threatened by the increasing incidence of difficult-to-treat cancer and various infectious diseases caused by resistant pathogens, but, on the other hand, ensuring sufficient safe food for balanced human nutrition is threatened by a growing infestation of agriculturally important plants, by various pathogens or by the deteriorating condition of agricultural land. One way to deal with all these undesirable facts is to try to develop technologies and sophisticated materials that could help overcome these negative effects/gloomy prospects. One possibility is to try to use nanotechnology and, within this broad field, to focus also on the study of two-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials, which have excellent prospects to be used in various economic sectors. In this brief up-to-date overview, attention is paid to recent applications of graphene-based nanomaterials, i.e., graphene, graphene quantum dots, graphene oxide, graphene oxide quantum dots, and reduced graphene oxide. These materials and their various modifications and combinations with other compounds are discussed, regarding their biomedical and agro-ecological applications, i.e., as materials investigated for their antineoplastic and anti-invasive effects, for their effects against various plant pathogens, and as carriers of bioactive agents (drugs, pesticides, fertilizers) as well as materials suitable to be used in theranostics. The negative effects of graphene-based nanomaterials on living organisms, including their mode of action, are analyzed as well. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2ff2975526d04ecab0bd07cf22b52f842023-11-23T14:12:19ZengMDPI AGInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences1661-65961422-00672022-06-012311625310.3390/ijms23116253Advances in Biologically Applicable Graphene-Based 2D NanomaterialsJosef Jampilek0Katarina Kralova1Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, SlovakiaClimate change and increasing contamination of the environment, due to anthropogenic activities, are accompanied with a growing negative impact on human life. Nowadays, humanity is threatened by the increasing incidence of difficult-to-treat cancer and various infectious diseases caused by resistant pathogens, but, on the other hand, ensuring sufficient safe food for balanced human nutrition is threatened by a growing infestation of agriculturally important plants, by various pathogens or by the deteriorating condition of agricultural land. One way to deal with all these undesirable facts is to try to develop technologies and sophisticated materials that could help overcome these negative effects/gloomy prospects. One possibility is to try to use nanotechnology and, within this broad field, to focus also on the study of two-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials, which have excellent prospects to be used in various economic sectors. In this brief up-to-date overview, attention is paid to recent applications of graphene-based nanomaterials, i.e., graphene, graphene quantum dots, graphene oxide, graphene oxide quantum dots, and reduced graphene oxide. These materials and their various modifications and combinations with other compounds are discussed, regarding their biomedical and agro-ecological applications, i.e., as materials investigated for their antineoplastic and anti-invasive effects, for their effects against various plant pathogens, and as carriers of bioactive agents (drugs, pesticides, fertilizers) as well as materials suitable to be used in theranostics. The negative effects of graphene-based nanomaterials on living organisms, including their mode of action, are analyzed as well.https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/11/6253graphenegraphene quantum dotsgraphene oxidegraphene oxide quantum dotsreduced graphene oxidenanocarriers |
| spellingShingle | Josef Jampilek Katarina Kralova Advances in Biologically Applicable Graphene-Based 2D Nanomaterials International Journal of Molecular Sciences graphene graphene quantum dots graphene oxide graphene oxide quantum dots reduced graphene oxide nanocarriers |
| title | Advances in Biologically Applicable Graphene-Based 2D Nanomaterials |
| title_full | Advances in Biologically Applicable Graphene-Based 2D Nanomaterials |
| title_fullStr | Advances in Biologically Applicable Graphene-Based 2D Nanomaterials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advances in Biologically Applicable Graphene-Based 2D Nanomaterials |
| title_short | Advances in Biologically Applicable Graphene-Based 2D Nanomaterials |
| title_sort | advances in biologically applicable graphene based 2d nanomaterials |
| topic | graphene graphene quantum dots graphene oxide graphene oxide quantum dots reduced graphene oxide nanocarriers |
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