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Carbon-based materials for photodynamic therapy: A mini-review

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Carbon-based materials have been extensively applied in photodynamic therapy owing to the unique optical characteristics, good biocompatibility and tunable systematic toxicity. This mini-review mainly focuses on the recent application of carbon-based materials including graphene, carbon nanotube, fullerene, corannulene, carbon dot and mesoporous carbon nanoparticle. The carbon-based materials can perform not only as photosensitizers, but also effective carriers for photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy, and its combined treatment.

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Lu, D., Tao, R. & Wang, Z. Carbon-based materials for photodynamic therapy: A mini-review. Front. Chem. Sci. Eng. 13, 310–323 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-018-1750-7

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