ReviewACS central science2016
Can Carbon Nanotubes Deliver on Their Promise in Biology? Harnessing Unique Properties for Unparalleled Applications.
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29 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Comprehensive Review on Filled Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications.Chemical reviews · 2026Review
- The Application of Nano Drug Delivery Systems in Female Upper Genital Tract Disorders.Pharmaceutics · 2024Review
- How to fix a broken heart-designing biofunctional cues for effective, environmentally-friendly cardiac tissue engineering.Frontiers in chemistry · 2023Review
- Preparation, characterization and properties of three different nanomaterials either alone or loaded with nystatin or fluconazole antifungals.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Enzymatic and Cellular Degradation of Carbon-Based Biconcave Nanodisks.Micromachines · 2022Article
- Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube-Based Nanodevices for Monitoring the Effects of Chlorphenamine on the Activities of Intracellular CaJournal of analytical methods in chemistry · 2022Article
- Myeloid ABCG1 Deficiency Enhances Apoptosis and Initiates Efferocytosis in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Cells of Murine Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Induced Granuloma Model.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- The Role of Temperature on the Degree of End-Closing and Filling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Synthesis of covalent bonding MWCNT-oligoethylene linezolid conjugates and their antibacterial activity against bacterial strains.RSC advances · 2021Article
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- Applications of nanomaterials in tissue engineering.RSC advances · 2021Review
- Investigation of Fractal Carbon Nanotube Networks for Biophilic Neural Sensing Applications.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Advances and Perspectives in the Use of Carbon Nanotubes in Vaccine Development.International journal of nanomedicine · 2021Review
- Safe Nanoparticles: Are We There Yet?International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Selective Uptake of Carboxylated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Class A Type 1 Scavenger Receptors and Impaired Phagocytosis in Alveolar Macrophages.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Impaired mitochondrial function of alveolar macrophages in carbon nanotube-induced chronic pulmonary granulomatous disease.Toxicology · 2020Article
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- Mapping of the available standards against the regulatory needs for nanomedicines.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology · 2019Review
- Interactions of Functionalized Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes with Giant Phospholipid Vesicles as Model Cellular Membrane System.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Toxicological status of nanoparticles: What we know and what we don't know.Chemico-biological interactions · 2018Review
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Abstract
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are cylindrical sheets of hexagonally ordered carbon atoms, giving tubes with diameters on the order of a few nanometers and lengths typically in the micrometer range. They may be single- or multiwalled (SWCNTs and MWCNTs respectively). Since the seminal report of their synthesis in 1991, CNTs have fascinated scientists of all stripes. Physicists have been intrigued by their electrical, thermal, and vibrational potential. Materials scientists have worked on integrating them into ultrastrong composites and electronic devices, while chemists have been fascinated by the effects of curvature on reactivity and have developed new synthesis and purification techniques. However, to date no large-scale, real-life biotechnological CNT breakthrough has been industrially adopted and it is proving difficult to justify taking these materials forward into the clinic. We believe that these challenges are not the end of the story, but that a viable carbon nanotube biotechnology is one in which the unique properties of nanotubes bring about an effect that would be otherwise impossible. In this Outlook, we therefore seek to reframe the field by highlighting those biological applications in which the singular properties of CNTs provide some entirely new activity or biological effect as a pointer to "what could be".
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