Human and environmental safety of carbon nanotubes across their life cycle

M Kim, D Goerzen, PV Jena, E Zeng… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Carbon nanotubes are a large family of carbon-based hollow cylindrical structures with
unique physicochemical properties that have motivated research for diverse applications; …

[HTML][HTML] Nano-based drug delivery systems: Conventional drug delivery routes, recent developments and future prospects

A Sultana, M Zare, V Thomas, TSS Kumar… - Medicine in Drug …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drug delivery can be defined as the group of approaches a drug or pharmacologically active
agent can be transported to the target cell to treat disease or health issue. Conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles in situ grown on carbon nanotube as a reinforcement for poly (ε-caprolactone) bone scaffold

P Feng, K Wang, Y Shuai, S Peng, Y Hu… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
The incorporation of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and hydroxyapatite (HA) into biopolymer as
bone scaffold is expected to combine the excellent mechanical properties of CNT and …

[HTML][HTML] Tailored carbon materials (TCM) for enhancing photocatalytic degradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons

A Singh, J Dhau, R Kumar, R Badru, P Singh… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
This comprehensive review explores the potential of tailored carbon materials (TCM) for
efficient photocatalytic degradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are …

Robust antibacterial activity of functionalized carbon nanotube-levofloxacine conjugate based on in vitro and in vivo studies

M Hassani, A Tahghighi, M Rohani, M Hekmati… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
A new nano-antibiotic was synthesized from the conjugation of multi-walled carbon
nanotubes with levofloxacin (MWCNT-LVX) through covalent grafting of drug with surface …

Balancing the antibacterial and osteogenic effects of double-layer TiO 2 nanotubes loaded with silver nanoparticles for the osseointegration of implants

L Sun, X Chen, R Chen, Z Ji, H Mu, C Liu, J Yu, J Wang… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The improvement of Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs), in particular, loaded titania nanotubes,
includes not only the antibacterial effect but also balancing the side effects from the …

Ni II NPs entrapped within a matrix of l-glutamic acid cross-linked chitosan supported on magnetic carboxylic acid-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube: a new …

MH Galehban, B Zeynizadeh, H Mousavi - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present study, a new L-glutamic acid cross-linked chitosan supported on magnetic
carboxylic acid-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube (Fe3O4/f-MWCNT-CS-Glu) …

[HTML][HTML] Hyper-branched multifunctional carbon nanotubes carrier for targeted liver cancer therapy

Y Zhou, K Vinothini, F Dou, Y Jing… - Arabian Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The systemic toxicity of anticancer drugs regularly restricts the use of conventional
chemotherapy to treat cancer. In this study, the limitations overcome by profitably fabricating …

Collagen-coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as a sustainable catalyst for spirooxindole synthesis

SG Azarnier, M Esmkhani, Z Dolatkhah, S Javanshir - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
In this work, a novel magnetic organic–inorganic hybrid catalyst was fabricated by
encapsulating magnetite@ silica (Fe3O4@ SiO2) nanoparticles with Isinglass protein …

Functionalised carbon nanotubes: promising drug delivery vehicles for neurovascular disorder intervention

P Komane, P Kumar, Y Choonara - AAPS PharmSciTech, 2023 - Springer
Neurovascular diseases are linked to the brain's blood vessels. These disorders are
complicated to treat due to the strict selective characteristics of the blood–brain barrier …