Background Carbon nanomaterials are a growing family of materials featuring unique
physicochemical properties, and their widespread application is accompanied by increasing …

Fundamentally, all interactions between the nanoparticle corona complex and the biological
machinery are mediated by physical forces common to all molecular systems. The …

Nanotechnology uses the unique properties of objects that function as a unit within the
overall size range of 1–1,000 nanometres. The engineering of nanostructure materials …

We have shown previously that single-walled carbon nanotubes can be catalytically
biodegraded over several weeks by the plant-derived enzyme, horseradish peroxidase …

BACKGROUND: It is widely believed that engineered nanomaterials will be increasingly
used in biomedical applications. However, before these novel materials can be safely …

Carbon nanotubes are promising nanomaterials with great potential in the field of
nanomedicine for both therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Different approaches have …

Dendritic cells (DCs) are the primary antigen-presenting cells and play key roles in the
orchestration of the innate and adaptive immune system. Targeting DCs by nanotechnology …

After hydrogen and oxygen, carbon is the third most abundant component present in the
cosmos with excellent characteristic features of binding to itself and nearly all elements …

Pulmonary surfactant (PS) constitutes the first line of host defense in the deep lung. Because
of its high content of phospholipids and surfactant specific proteins, the interaction of inhaled …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are structurally described as sheets of six-membered carbon
atom rings (ie, graphene) rolled up into cylinders. CNTs with only one layer are known as …