Can Carbon Nanotubes be Considered Useful Tools for Biological Applications?

By A. Bianco, M. Prato. 2003

307 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology

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In Biomaterials

1. Kostas Kostarelos
2. C. Partidos
3. A. Bianco
4. M. Prato

In Materials Chemistry

1. Kostas Kostarelos
2. M. Prato
3. A. Bianco
4. C. Partidos
5. Bernd Nowack
6. T. Bucheli
7. Zhuang Liu
8. Hongjie Dai

In Molecular Biology

1. Kostas Kostarelos
2. M. Prato
3. A. Bianco
4. C. Partidos

Citations in the corpus

• Targeted Delivery of Pesticides Using Biodegradable Polymeric Nanoparticles (2013, background): “Considerable amount of work has been done to utilize them as nanocarriers for drug delivery (Bianco and Prato 2003; Bianco et al. 2005; Kam and Dai 2005).”
• Occurrence, behavior and effects of nanoparticles in the environment. (2007, background): “Especially biological and medical applications explore the potential of modifying the properties of CNT (Bianco and Prato, 2003).”
• Applications of carbon nanotubes in drug delivery. (2005, background): “Recently, CNT have generated great interest in biology [7 ], where suitably modified CNT can serve as vaccine delivery systems [8] or protein transporters [9 ].”
• Biomedical applications of functionalised carbon nanotubes. (2005, methodology): “This particular technique has also been utilised to obtain the first example of a bioactive peptide covalently linked to CNTs by the prospect for the potential applications in immunology (Bianco and Prato, 2003; Pantarotto et al., 2003a, b; Bianco et al., 2005b).”