Journal
ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 911-948Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c02945
Keywords
fluorescent materials; COVID-19; carbon dots; metal nanoclusters; AIEgens; MXenes
Funding
- Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, through the INSPIRE Faculty Award [IFA-13 ENG-57, DST/TM/WTI/2K16/23(G)]
- DST and Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF) [IUSSTF/JC-025/2016]
- Newcastle University in U.K. [RSA/CCEAMD5010]
- Newcastle University in Singapore [RSA/CCEAMD5010]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted global unpreparedness in fighting against unknown infectious pathogens, with a lack of vaccines and reliable detection techniques. Material research, particularly focusing on nanomaterials, plays a crucial role in developing antimicrobial agents and biosensors. Nanostructured fluorescent materials have shown promising potential in combating pandemics like COVID-19.
The COVID-19 outbreak has exposed the world's preparation to fight against unknown/unexplored infectious and life-threatening pathogens. The unavailability of vaccines, slow or sometimes unreliable real-time virus/bacteria detection techniques, insufficient personal protective equipment (PPE), and a shortage of ventilators and many other transportation equipments have further raised serious concerns. Material research has been playing a pivotal role in developing antimicrobial agents for water treatment and photodynamic therapy, fast and ultrasensitive biosensors for virus/biomarkers detection, as well as for relevant biomedical and environmental applications. It has been noticed that these research efforts nowadays primarily focus on the nanomaterials-based platforms owing to their simplicity, reliability, and feasibility. In particular, nanostructured fluorescent materials have shown key potential due to their fascinating optical and unique properties at the nanoscale to combat against a COVID-19 kind of pandemic. Keeping these points in mind, this review attempts to give a perspective on the four key fluorescent materials of different families, including carbon dots, metal nanoclusters, aggregation-induced-emission luminogens, and MXenes, which possess great potential for the development of ultrasensitive biosensors and infective antimicrobial agents to fight against various infections/diseases. Particular emphasis has been given to the biomedical and environmental applications that are linked directly or indirectly to the efforts in combating COVID-19 pandemics. This review also aims to raise the awareness of researchers and scientists across the world to utilize such powerful materials in tackling similar pandemics in future.
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