Cancer-targeted nanotechnology has a new trend in the design and preparation of new materials with functions for imaging and therapeutic applications simultaneously. As a new type of carbon nanomaterial, the inherent core-shell structured carbon dots (CDs) can be designed to provide a modular nanoplatform for integration of bioimaging and therapeutic capabilities. Here, core-shell structured CDs are designed and synthesized from levofloxacin and arginine and named Arg-CDs, in which levofloxacin-derived chromophores with up-conversion fluorescence are densely packed into the carbon core while guanidine groups are located on the shell, providing nitric oxide (NO) for photodynamic therapy of tumors. Moreover, the chromophores in the carbon core irradiated by visible LED light generate large amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROSs) that will oxidize the guanidine groups located on the shell of the Arg-CDs and further increase the NO releasing capacity remarkably. The as-synthesized Arg-CDs show excellent biocompatibility, bright up-conversion fluorescence, and a light-controlled ROS & NO releasing ability, which can be a potential light-modulated nanoplatform to integrate bioimaging and therapeutic functionalities.
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