Fluorescent carbon dots from beer for breast cancer cell imaging and drug delivery

• DOI: 10.1039/c5ay01978h
• Publication Date: 2015-09-07T13:30:39Z
• Authors: Ziyi Wang; Han Liao; Hao Wu; Beibei Wang; Haidong Zhao; Mingqian Tan
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences; 3. Good health

We report the finding of the presence of fluorescent carbon dots in commercial beer and TEM analysis reveals that the beer carbon dots (BCDs) have an average size of 2.5 nm.