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.
