Carbon nanotubes: Smart drug/gene delivery carriers

H Zare, S Ahmadi, A Ghasemi, M Ghanbari… - International journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs)(such as their high surface to volume
ratios, enhanced conductivity and strength, biocompatibility, ease of functionalization, optical …

Review on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their chemical and physical characteristics, with particular emphasis on potential applications in biomedicine

H Ijaz, A Mahmood, MM Abdel-Daim, RM Sarfraz… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
This comprehensive review article discusses the biomedical applications of carbon
nanotubes (CNTs) with unique inherent chemical and physical attributes. The findings of …

Carbon nanotubes as an effective opportunity for cancer diagnosis and treatment

A Sanginario, B Miccoli, D Demarchi - Biosensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Despite the current progresses of modern medicine, the resistance of malignant tumors to
present medical treatments points to the necessity of developing new therapeutic …

Recent advances in bioactive 1D and 2D carbon nanomaterials for biomedical applications

O Erol, I Uyan, M Hatip, C Yilmaz, AB Tekinay… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract One-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the two-dimensional (2D)
graphene represent the most widely studied allotropes of carbon. Due to their unique …

Functionalization of carbon nanotubes by combination of controlled radical polymerization and “grafting to” method

Z Abousalman-Rezvani, P Eskandari… - Advances in colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the recent advances in non-covalent and covalent tethering of small
molecules and polymer chains onto carbon nanotube (CNT) and its derivatives. The …

Recent advances of individual BODIPY and BODIPY-based functional materials in medical diagnostics and treatment

Y S. Marfin, A V. Solomonov, A S. Timin… - Current Medicinal …, 2017 - benthamdirect.com
Background: The group of fluorophores on boron dipyrrin platform (4, 4-difluoro-4-bora3a,
4a-diaza-s-indacene, also known as BODIPY) has attracted much attention in the field of …

Designing multimodal carbon nanotubes by covalent multi-functionalization

B Dinesh, A Bianco, C Ménard-Moyon - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a unique tool in nanotechnology owing to their exceptional
properties that offer a variety of opportunities for applications in different fields. Nevertheless …

30 years of advances in functionalization of carbon nanomaterials for biomedical applications: a practical review

NM Bardhan - Journal of Materials Research, 2017 - cambridge.org
Carbon-based nanomaterials (CANOMATs), including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes,
graphene, and their derivatives, are widely considered to be the next-generation materials …

Surface Engineering of Chemically Exfoliated MoS2 in a “Click”: How To Generate Versatile Multifunctional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides-Based Platforms

G Tuci, D Mosconi, A Rossin, L Luconi… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The interest for transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as two-dimensional (2D) analogues
of graphene is steadily growing along with the need of efficient and easy tunable protocols …

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes for drug delivery: Efficiency related to length and incubation time

N Sciortino, S Fedeli, P Paoli, A Brandi… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Batches of oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes differing in length were adopted to
prepare two drug delivery systems (DDS) loaded with doxorubicin. The different …