Issue 4, 2008
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Chemical Communications

Multiwalled carbon nanotube–doxorubicin supramolecular complexes for cancer therapeutics

Hanene Ali-Boucetta,a   Khuloud T. Al-Jamal,a   David McCarthy,a   Maurizio Prato,b   Alberto Biancoc  and  Kostas Kostarelos*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Nanomedicine Laboratory, Centre for Drug Delivery, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London, UK
E-mail: kostas.kostarelos@pharmacy.ac.uk
Fax: +44 20 7757 5942
Tel: +44 20 77535861

b Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

c Institut de Biology Molèculaire et Cellulaire, UP R9021 CNRS, Immunologie et Chimie Thèrapeutiques, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

Multiwalled carbon nanotube aqueous dispersions using block copolymers are able to form supramolecular complexes with the aromatic chromophore and anticancer agent doxorubicinvia π–π stacking and enhance its cytotoxic activity.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B712350G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Aug 2007
Accepted
05 Nov 2007
First published
14 Nov 2007

Chem. Commun., 2008, 459-461

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Multiwalled carbon nanotube–doxorubicin supramolecular complexes for cancer therapeutics

H. Ali-Boucetta, K. T. Al-Jamal, D. McCarthy, M. Prato, A. Bianco and K. Kostarelos, Chem. Commun., 2008, 459 DOI: 10.1039/B712350G

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