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Photodegradation of carbon dots cause cytotoxicity
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Carbon dots (CDs) are photoluminescent nanomaterials with wide-ranging applications. Despite their photoactivity, it remains unknown whether CDs degrade under illumination and whether such photodegradation poses any cytotoxic effects. Here, we show laboratory-synthesized CDs irradiated with light degrade into molecules that are toxic to both normal (HEK-293) and cancerous (HeLa and HepG2) human cells. Eight days of irradiation photolyzes 28.6-59.8% of the CDs to <3 kilo Dalton molecules, 1431 of which are detected by high-throughput, non-target high-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Molecular network and community analysis further reveal 499 cytotoxicity-related molecules, 212 of which contain polyethylene glycol, glucose, or benzene-related structures. Photo-induced production of hydroxyl and alkyl radicals play important roles in CD degradation as affected by temperature, pH, light intensity and wavelength. Commercial CDs show similar photodegraded products and cytotoxicity profiles, demonstrating that photodegradation-induced cytotoxicity is likely common to CDs regardless of their chemical composition. Our results highlight the importance of light in cytocompatibility studies of CDs.
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- Liu, Y.-Y., Yu, N.-Y., Fang, W.-D., Tan, Q.-G., Ji, R., Yang, L.-Y., Wei, S., Zhang, X.-W., & Miao, A.-J.
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- Nature Communications
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- 2021-02-05
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- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 812-812
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- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
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- W3126920563
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- 244
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 10.20
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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