Population growth, urbanization, and decarbonization efforts are collectively straining the
supply of limited resources that are necessary to produce batteries, electronics, chemicals …

There is an increasing need for rapid, low cost, reusable, reliable and sensitive detection
systems for diagnosing infectious diseases, metabolic disorders, rapidly advancing cancers …

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 …

Applications for advanced functional soft materials that possess precisely engineered
properties and functional groups have been expanding significantly with the development of …

This review focuses on smart nano-materials built of stimuli-responsive (SR) polymers and
will discuss their numerous applications in the biomedical field. The authors will first provide …

The world of nanomaterials provides exciting challenges and opportunities for chemists,
physicists, biologists, and material scientists. The use of nanomaterials as building blocks for …

There is an explosive interest in 1D nanostructured materials for biological sensors. Among
these nanometer‐scale materials, single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) offer the …

Ever since the discovery of carbon nanotubes, researchers have been exploring their
potential in biological and biomedical applications. The recent expansion and availability of …

Through functionalization of carbon nanotubes, ie, the attachment of appropriate chemical
functionalities onto their conjugated sp 2 carbon scaffold, the prerequisites for faciliating the …

The development of surfaces that have switchable properties, also known as smart surfaces,
have been actively pursued in the past few years. The recent surge of interest in these …