Issue 5, 2005
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Chemical Communications

Biomedical applications of functionalised carbon nanotubes

Alberto Bianco,*a   Kostas Kostarelos,*b   Charalambos D. Partidos*a  and  Maurizio Prato*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UPR9021 CNRS, Immunologie et Chimie Thérapeutiques, 67084 Strasbourg, France
E-mail: A.Bianco@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr, H.Partidos@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr

b Centre for Drug Delivery Research, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London WC1N 1AX, UK
E-mail: kostas.kostarelos@ulsop.ac.uk

c Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
E-mail: prato@units.it

Abstract

The organic functionalisation of carbon nanotubes can improve substantially their solubility and biocompatibility profile; as a consequence, their manipulation and integration into biological systems has become possible so that functionalised carbon nanotubes hold currently strong promise as novel systems for the delivery of drugs, antigens and genes.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B410943K
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
19 Jul 2004
Accepted
16 Nov 2004
First published
21 Dec 2004

Chem. Commun., 2005, 571-577

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