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Opi MH, Ahmed T, Swarna MR, Piya AA, Shamim SUD. Assessment of the drug delivery potential of graphene, boron nitride and their in-plane doped structures for hydroxyurea anti-cancer drug via DFT study. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2024:d4na00428k. [PMID: 39148501 PMCID: PMC11322902 DOI: 10.1039/d4na00428k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2024] [Accepted: 07/30/2024] [Indexed: 08/17/2024]
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Globally, cancer is the most common cause of mortality among all deadly diseases. As a result, a nanotechnology-based drug delivery system is used to improve the efficacy of cancer treatment, which provides an improved therapeutic index and delivers multiple drugs directly to the tumor site. In the present work, DFT calculations were employed to investigate the surface adsorption of a hydroxyurea (HU) anticancer drug on pristine graphene (GP), boron nitride (B24N24), and doped GP by replacing some of its carbon atoms with boron (B) and nitrogen (N) atoms to form C30B9N9, C16B16N16, and C6B21N21 nanosheets. In gas media, HU is adsorbed on these C30B9N9, C16B16N16, C6B21N21, and B24N24 nanosheets with adsorption energies of -0.70, -3.03, -2.47, and -1.96 eV, respectively. Alternatively, in water solvent media, the adsorption energies of C30B9N9, C16B16N16, C6B21N21, and B24N24 are -0.82, -0.29, -0.15, and -0.26 eV, respectively. The energy gaps of the nanosheets were found to be 0.288, 0.174, 0.14, and 4.562 eV before adsorption, respectively. After the adsorption of HU on the proposed nanosheets, the energy gap was reduced to 0.15 eV for C16B16N16. According to the DOS spectra, noticeable peaks appeared in the Fermi level after the adsorption of HU on the nanosheets, which indicates the reduction of the energy gap. Quantum molecular analysis predicted that the chemical potential, electrophilicity index, and nucleophilicity index of C16B16N16 increased, whereas global hardness decreased, indicating high reactivity. Therefore, it can be concluded that among the proposed nanosheets, C16B16N16 would be an appropriate carrier for the HU drug.
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- Mehedi Hasan Opi
- Department of Physics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University Tangail Bangladesh
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- Department of Physics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University Tangail Bangladesh
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- Department of Physics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University Tangail Bangladesh
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- Department of Physics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University Tangail Bangladesh
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- Department of Physics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University Tangail Bangladesh
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Piya AA, Hossain AKMA. Investigation of the adsorption behavior of the anti-cancer drug hydroxyurea on the graphene, BN, AlN, and GaN nanosheets and their doped structures via DFT and COSMO calculations. RSC Adv 2023; 13:27309-27320. [PMID: 37705988 PMCID: PMC10496457 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra04072k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023] Open
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To reduce the direct side effects of chemotherapy, researchers are trying to establish a new approach of a drug-delivery system using nanomaterials. In this study, we investigated graphene and its derivative nanomaterials for their favorable adsorption behavior with the anti-cancer drug hydroxyurea (HU) using DFT calculations. Initially, different pristine and doped graphene and its derivatives were taken into consideration as HU drug carriers. Among them, AlN, GaN, GaN-doped AlN, and AlN-doped GaN nanosheets exhibited favorable adsorption behavior with HU. The HU adsorbed on these four nanosheets with adsorption energies of -0.92, -0.75, -0.83, and -0.69 eV, transferring 0.16, 0.032, 0.108, and 0.230 e charges to the nanosheets, respectively, in air medium. In water solvent media, these four nanosheets interacted with HU by -0.56, -0.45, -0.58, and -0.56 eV by accepting a significant amount of charge of about 0.125, 0.128, 0.192, and 0.126 e from HU. The dipole moment and COSMO analysis also indicated that these nanosheets, except for GaN-doped AlN, show high asymmetricity and solubility in water solvent media due to the increased values of the dipole moment by two or three times after the adsorption of the HU drug. Quantum molecular descriptors also suggest that the sensitivity and reactivity of the nanosheets are enhanced during the interaction with HU. Therefore, these nanosheets can be used as anti-cancer drug carriers.
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- Afiya Akter Piya
- Department of Physics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University Tangail Bangladesh
- Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka Bangladesh
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- Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka Bangladesh
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Long-Term Fluorescence Behavior of CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots on Various Planar Chromatographic Stationary Phases. NANOMATERIALS 2022; 12:nano12050745. [PMID: 35269234 PMCID: PMC8911965 DOI: 10.3390/nano12050745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Nanoparticles, particularly quantum dots (QDs), are commonly used for the sensitive detection of various objects. A number of target molecules may be determined using QDs sensing systems. Depending on their chemical nature, physicochemical properties, and spatial arrangement, QDs can selectively interact with given molecules of interest. This can be performed in complex systems, including microorganisms or tissues. Efficient fluorescence enables low exposure of QDs and high sensitivity for detection. One disadvantage of quantum dots fluorophores is fluorescence decay. However, for given applications, this property may be an advantage, e.g., for highly sensitive detection based on correlation images in the time domain. This experimental work deals with the measurement of fluorescence decay of Lumidot TMCdSe/ZnS (530 nm) quantum dots. These nanoparticles were transferred to the surface of various planar chromatographic stationary phases. Fluorescence of formed spots was recorded at room temperature over a long period of time, namely 15.7824 × 105 min (three years). The resulting signal profiles in the time domain were analyzed using classical approach (luminescence model comparison involving different mathematical models).Moreover, fluorescence behavior on different TLC/HPTLC supports was investigated using multivariate statistics (principal component analysis, PCA). Eight planar chromatographic stationary phases were investigated, including cellulose, octadecylsilane, polyamide, silica gel and aluminium oxide in different forms (TLC and HPTLC types). The presented research revealed significantly different and non-linear long-term QDs behavior on these solids. Two different fluorescence signal trajectories were recorded, including typical signal decay after QDs application to the plates and long-term intensity increase. This was particularly visible for given planar chromatographic adsorbents, e.g., cellulose or octadecylsilane. To the author’s knowledge, these findings were not reported before using the stationary chromatographic phases, and enable the design of future experiments toward sensing of low molecular mass chemicals using, e.g., advanced quantification approaches. This may include signal processing computations based on correlation images in the time domain. Additionally, the reported preliminary data indicates that the investigated nanoparticles can be applied as efficient and selective fluorophores. This was demonstrated on micro-TLC plates where separated bioactive organic substances quenching from cyanobacteria extracts were sensitively detected. The described detection protocol can be directly applied for different planar chromatographic systems, including paper-based microfluidic devices, planar electrophoresis and/or miniaturized microfluidic chip devices.
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Sattari S, Adeli M, Beyranvand S, Nemati M. Functionalized Graphene Platforms for Anticancer Drug Delivery. Int J Nanomedicine 2021; 16:5955-5980. [PMID: 34511900 PMCID: PMC8416335 DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s249712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Two-dimensional nanomaterials are emerging as promising candidates for a wide range of biomedical applications including tissue engineering, biosensing, pathogen incapacitation, wound healing, and gene and drug delivery. Graphene, due to its high surface area, photothermal property, high loading capacity, and efficient cellular uptake, is at the forefront of these materials and plays a key role in this multidisciplinary research field. Poor water dispersibility and low functionality of graphene, however, hamper its hybridization into new nanostructures for future nanomedicine. Functionalization of graphene, either by covalent or non-covalent methods, is the most useful strategy to improve its dispersion in water and functionality as well as processability into new materials and devices. In this review, recent advances in functionalization of graphene derivatives by different (macro)molecules for future biomedical applications are reported and explained. In particular, hydrophilic functionalization of graphene and graphene oxide (GO) to improve their water dispersibility and physicochemical properties is discussed. We have focused on the anticancer drug delivery of polyfunctional graphene sheets.
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- Shabnam Sattari
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
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Yao J, Wang H, Chen M, Yang M. Recent advances in graphene-based nanomaterials: properties, toxicity and applications in chemistry, biology and medicine. Mikrochim Acta 2019; 186:395. [PMID: 31154528 DOI: 10.1007/s00604-019-3458-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 04/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This review (with 239 refs.) summarizes the progress that has been made in applications of graphene-based nanomaterials (such as plain graphene, graphene oxides, doped graphene oxides, graphene quantums dots) in biosensing, imaging, drug delivery and diagnosis. Following an introduction into the field, a first large section covers the toxicity of graphene and its derivatives (with subsections on bacterial toxicity and tissue toxicity). The use of graphene-based nanomaterials in sensors is reviewed next, with subsections on electrochemical, FET-based, fluorescent, chemiluminescent and colorimetric sensors and probes. The large field of imaging is treated next, with subchapters on optical, PET-based, and magnetic resonance based methods. A concluding section summarizes the current status, addresses current challenges, and gives an outlook on potential future trends. Graphical Abstract Schematic presentation of the potential applications of graphene-based materials in life science and biomedicine, emphatically reflected in some vital areas such as DNA analysis, biological monitoring, drug delivery, in vitro labelling, in vivo imaging, tumor target, etc.
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- Jun Yao
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, People's Republic of China. .,State Key Laboratory of Oil & Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Catalysis of Higher Education Institutes of Sichuan, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, 643000, People's Republic of China.
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Ratiometric fluorescent sensing of copper ion based on chromaticity change strategy. Anal Bioanal Chem 2017; 409:6655-6662. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-017-0621-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2017] [Revised: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Peng Z, Han X, Li S, Al-Youbi AO, Bashammakh AS, El-Shahawi MS, Leblanc RM. Carbon dots: Biomacromolecule interaction, bioimaging and nanomedicine. Coord Chem Rev 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2017.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Huang S, Wang L, Zhu F, Su W, Sheng J, Huang C, Xiao Q. A ratiometric nanosensor based on fluorescent carbon dots for label-free and highly selective recognition of DNA. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra05519a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A ratiometric nanosensor based on fluorescent carbon dots for label-free and highly selective recognition of DNA.
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- Shan Huang
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Guangxi Teachers Education University
- Nanning 530001
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Guangxi Teachers Education University
- Nanning 530001
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Guangxi Teachers Education University
- Nanning 530001
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Guangxi Teachers Education University
- Nanning 530001
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Guangxi Teachers Education University
- Nanning 530001
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Guangxi Teachers Education University
- Nanning 530001
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Guangxi Teachers Education University
- Nanning 530001
- P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Virology
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