[HTML][HTML] Carbon nanotubes, science and technology part (I) structure, synthesis and characterisation

A Aqel, KMM Abou El-Nour, RAA Ammar… - Arabian Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Since their discovery in 1991 by the Japanese scientist “Sumio Iijima”, carbon nanotubes
have been of great interest, both from a fundamental point of view and for future …

Chemistry of carbon nanotubes

D Tasis, N Tagmatarchis, A Bianco, M Prato - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
The unidirectional growth of materials to form nanowires or nanotubes has attracted
enormous interest in recent years. Within the different classes of tubes made of organic or …

Chemically functionalized carbon nanotubes

K Balasubramanian, M Burghard - small, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Since their discovery, carbon nanotubes have attracted the attention of many a scientist
around the world. This extraordinary interest stems from their outstanding structural …

Purification of carbon nanotubes

PX Hou, C Liu, HM Cheng - carbon, 2008 - Elsevier
It is predicted theoretically and understood experimentally that carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
possess excellent physical and chemical properties and have wide-range potential …

Functionalization of carbon nanotubes

A Hirsch, O Vostrowsky - Functional Molecular Nanostructures: -/-, 2005 - Springer
Through functionalization of carbon nanotubes, ie, the attachment of appropriate chemical
functionalities onto their conjugated sp 2 carbon scaffold, the prerequisites for faciliating the …

Carbon nanotube substrates boost neuronal electrical signaling

V Lovat, D Pantarotto, L Lagostena, B Cacciari… - Nano …, 2005 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the possibility of using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as potential devices able
to improve neural signal transfer while supporting dendrite elongation and cell adhesion …

Curved Pi-Conjugation, Aromaticity, and the Related Chemistry of Small Fullerenes (<C60) and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

X Lu, Z Chen - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
The successive discoveries of fullerenes1 and carbon nanotubes2 (CNTs) around 1990
triggered a hot wave of scientific research to explore the properties and applications of these …

Advancement in carbon nanotubes: basics, biomedical applications and toxicity

S Beg, M Rizwan, AM Sheikh… - Journal of pharmacy …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Objectives Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted much attention by researchers
worldwide in recent years for their small dimensions and unique architecture, and for having …

[HTML][HTML] Functionalized carbon nanotubes as emerging nanovectors for the delivery of therapeutics

C Klumpp, K Kostarelos, M Prato, A Bianco - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2006 - Elsevier
Functionalized carbon nanotubes (f-CNT) are emerging as a new family of nanovectors for
the delivery of different types of therapeutic molecules. The application of CNT in the field of …

Synthesis, structural characterization, and immunological properties of carbon nanotubes functionalized with peptides

D Pantarotto, CD Partidos, R Graff… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanotubes (NTs) are becoming highly attractive molecules for applications in
medicinal chemistry. The main problem of insolubility in aqueous media has been solved by …