Diamond and carbon nanostructures for biomedical applications

Diamond and carbon nanostructures possess outstanding advantages, such as chemical inertness, stable fluorescence, tunable surface characteristics excellent biocompatibility. In particular, diamond has extremely strong mechanical properties, therefore the have been developed for unique applications. Herein, we systematically review very recent applications of these structures in drug delivery, bioimaging biosensing, followed by discussion their limitations challenges translation to potential clinical presentation our insights future development.