Highlights • This review aims to a wildly attentional topic in carbon nanostructure: tumor diagnosis using CQDs. • Host-guest molecular recognition is one of the central mechanisms in tumor diagnosis using CQDs. • First Summary of CQDs molecular recognition mechanism in tumor diagnosis in tumor biology theory. • This review avoids the controversial classification and structure definition. • This review clarifies the structure-property relationships of CQDs.
【저자키워드】 cell physiology, Hallmarks of cancer, Carbon-based quantum dots, Tumor diagnosis, Structure design,