Biocompatibility studies of macroscopic fibers made from carbon nanotubes: Implications for carbon nanotube macrostructures in biomedical applications

Carbon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 462-476
Author(s):  
J. Stephen Yan ◽  
Marco Orecchioni ◽  
Flavia Vitale ◽  
Julia A. Coco ◽  
Guillaume Duret ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Vol 06 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Murugesan ◽  
Sureshkumar Raman ◽  
Arun Radhakrishnan

Background: Recently, Nanomaterials based nano-composite materials play the role of various field. Especially, Carbon nanotube based materials are involved in the bio-medical applications.Since, their exclusive and exciting property, researchers worldwide have extensively involved in trans-modulating the carbon nanotubes into a viable medico-friendly system. Objective: These active researches paved the path towards targeted drug delivery, diagnostic techniques, and bio-analytical applications. Despite these exciting properties, which accomplish the probable for biomedical applications, they hold Biosafety issues. Methods: This broad-spectrum review has discussed different aspects of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube-based systems related to biomedical applications. Results: Adding to this, a short chronological description of these tiny yet powerful particles given, followed by a discussion regarding their types, properties, methods of synthesis, scale-up, purification techniques and characterization aspects of carbon nanotubes. Conclusion: In the later part, the functionalization of carbon nanotubes was reviewed in detail, which is important to make them biocompatible and stable in biological systems and render them a great property of loading various biomolecules diagnostic and therapeutic moieties. Lastly, an inclusive description of the potential biomedical applications has been given followed by insights into the future.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 12132
Author(s):  
Ilnur Ishmukhametov ◽  
Rawil Fakhrullin

Carbon nanotubes have emerged as a versatile and ubiquitous nanomaterial, finding applications in industry and biomedicine. As a result, biosafety concerns that stimulated the research focused on evaluation of carbon nanotube toxicity. In addition, biomedical applications of carbon nanotubes require their imaging and identification in biological specimens. Among other methods, dark-field microscopy has become a potent tool to visualise and identify carbon nanotubes in cells, tissues, and organisms. Based on the Tyndall effect, dark-field optical microscopy at higher magnification is capable of imaging nanoscale particles in live objects. If reinforced with spectral identification, this technology can be utilised for chemical identification and mapping of carbon nanotubes. In this article we overview the recent advances in dark-field/hyperspectral microscopy for the bioimaging of carbon nanotubes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 885 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Giuseppina Gullifa ◽  
Roberta Risoluti

Innovative preparation strategies for nanomaterial functionalization were proposed to provide novel tool to be used as drug delivery vectors for biomedical applications. In particular, three different carbon nanotubes were considered in this study such as the very small CNTs, the carboxylated CNTs (CNT-COOH) and the buckypapers and two polymers were used to study the functionalization. Different preparation procedures were investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), including the selection of the most performing polymer to be linked to the nanomaterial between PEI and PAMAM, the percentage of the polymer and the time of suspension. To simultaneously evaluate all these variables, an experimental design was planned and the recorded data were processed by chemometrics to identify the preparing procedure providing new nanomaterials able to conjugate microRNAs and to transfect efficiently endothelial cells.


2003 ◽  
Vol 772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masakazu Muroyama ◽  
Kazuto Kimura ◽  
Takao Yagi ◽  
Ichiro Saito

AbstractA carbon nanotube triode using Helicon Plasma-enhanced CVD with electroplated NiCo catalyst has been successfully fabricated. Isolated NiCo based metal catalyst was deposited at the bottom of the cathode wells by electroplating methods to control the density of carbon nanotubes and also reduce the activation energy of its growth. Helicon Plasma-enhanced CVD (HPECVD) has been used to deposit nanotubes at 400°C. Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes were then grown selectively on the electroplated Ni catalyst. Field emission measurements were performed with a triode structure. At a cathode to anode gap of 1.1mm, the turn on voltage for the gate was 170V.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manasi Doshi ◽  
Eric Paul Fahrenthold

Explosives and hazardous gas sensing using carbon nanotube (CNT) based sensors has been a focus of considerable experimental research. The simplest sensors have employed a chemiresistive sensing mechanism, and rely...


Author(s):  
Mohammad Hamza Kirmani ◽  
Geeta Sachdeva ◽  
Ravindra Pandey ◽  
Gregory M. Odegard ◽  
Richard Liang ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 124-126 ◽  
pp. 1309-1312
Author(s):  
Nguyen Duc Hoa ◽  
Nguyen Van Quy ◽  
Gyu Seok Choi ◽  
You Suk Cho ◽  
Se Young Jeong ◽  
...  

A new type of gas sensor was realized by directly depositing carbon nanotube on nano channels of the anodic alumina oxide (AAO) fabricated on p-type silicon substrate. The carbon nanotubes were synthesized by thermal chemical vapor deposition at a very high temperature of 1200 oC to improve the crystallinity. The device fabrication process was also developed. The contact of carbon nanotubes and p-type Si substrate showed a Schottky behavior, and the Schottky barrier height increased with exposure to gases while the overall conductivity decreased. The sensors showed fast response and recovery to ammonia gas upon the filling (400 mTorr) and evacuation.


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