Spectroscopic Analysis of Two Distinct Equilibrium States for the Exchange Reaction of Sodium Cholate and Oligo-DNA on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

ChemPhysChem ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1652-1655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichi Kato ◽  
Yasuro Niidome ◽  
Naotoshi Nakashima
2004 ◽  
Vol 108 (20) ◽  
pp. 6233-6241 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Keogh ◽  
T. G. Hedderman ◽  
E. Gregan ◽  
G. Farrell ◽  
G. Chambers ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan M. Williams ◽  
Hannah K. Taylor ◽  
Jackson Thomas ◽  
Zachary Cox ◽  
Bridget D. Dolash ◽  
...  

Increasing use of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) will lead to their increased release into the environment. Previous work has shown negative effects of SWCNT on growth and survival of model organisms. The aim of the current study was to determine the effect of SWCNT well-dispersed by either DNA or sodium cholate (SC) on the unicellular green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in stagnant water conditions. Growth measurements were taken up to ten days for algae treated with varied levels of DNA:SWCNT or SC:SWCNT or controls, and chlorophyll content after 10 days was determined. Results show no effect on either growth or chlorophyll content of algae at any concentration or duration. This is in contradiction to prior work showing toxicity of SWCNT to environmental model organisms.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifeng Dong ◽  
Alex Henderson ◽  
Christopher Field

We investigated the antibacterial activity of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) dispersed in surfactant solutions of sodium cholate, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate, and sodium dodecyl sulfate. Among the three surfactants, sodium cholate demonstrated the weakest antibacterial activity againstSalmonella enterica,Escherichia coli, andEnterococcus faeciumand thereby was used to disperse bundled SWCNTs in order to study nanotube antibiotic activity. SWCNTs exhibited antibacterial characteristics for bothS. entericaandE. coli. With the increase of nanotube concentrations from 0.3 mg/mL to 1.5 mg/mL, the growth curves had plateaus at lower absorbance values whereas the absorbance value was not obviously affected by the incubation ranging from 5 min to 2 h. Our findings indicate that carbon nanotubes could become an effective alternative to antibiotics in dealing with drug-resistant and multidrug-resistant bacterial strains because of the physical mode of bactericidal action that SWCNTs display.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichi Kato ◽  
Ayaka Inoue ◽  
Naotoshi Nakashima ◽  
Yasuro Niidome

ABSTRACTExchange of solubilizers adsorbed on single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is probed by analysis of the peak shifts of the absorption bands of CNTs in the near-infrared region. Equilibrium constants and thermodynamic parameters of the exchange of sodium cholate for DNA (15-mers of oligo-DNAs, cytosine) on CNTs of different chirality are determined.


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