Gangaraju Gedda
Presidency University, India
Title: Medicinal Plant materials Derived Carbon dots for Therapeutic Applications
Biography
Biography: Gangaraju Gedda
Abstract
A variety of bio-active therapeutic agents attained from medicinal plants have assessed for their feasibility to cure various disease. Bioactive compounds such as phytochemicals containing natural sources (turmeric leaves, ginger, garlic, cannabis sativa leaf, Aloe-Vera extract) derived CDs showed various therapeutic properties such as anti-cancer, anti-oxidant, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory. However, the extraction of bioactive components from plant materials not only involve complicate synthesis and purification steps but also it involves expensive and toxic chemical/solvents. Therefore, it essential to develop novel, green and economical methods for the preparation of effective therapeutic agents. Recently carbon dots (CDs) gained remarkable attention due to their due to their nanosize, low toxicity, excellent biocompatibility water solubility and remarkable free radicals scavenging properties. It was noticed that the physical, chemical and biological properties mainly depend on the selection of carbon precursors for the CDs preparation. It is worthy and emergent to prepare CDs dots from bioactive compounds containing medicinal plants and evaluating their therapeutic properties. Here, we discussed about synthesis, properties and therapeutic applications of CDs derived from medicinal plant materials.