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Carbon nanotubes as multifunctional biological transporters and near-infrared agents for selective cancer cell destruction.
- N. W. Kam, M. O'connell, Jeffrey A. Wisdom, H. Dai
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 16 August 2005
Biological systems are known to be highly transparent to 700- to 1,100-nm near-infrared (NIR) light. It is shown here that the strong optical absorbance of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in… Expand
Supramolecular chemistry on water-soluble carbon nanotubes for drug loading and delivery.
- Zhuang Liu, X. Sun, Nozomi Nakayama-Ratchford, H. Dai
- Materials Science, Medicine
- ACS nano
- 14 August 2007
We show that large surface areas exist for supramolecular chemistry on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) prefunctionalized noncovalently or covalently by common surfactant or acid-oxidation… Expand
In vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumour targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice.
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) exhibit unique size, shape and physical properties1,2,3 that make them promising candidates for biological applications. Here, we investigate the… Expand
Noncovalent sidewall functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes for protein immobilization.
- R. J. Chen, Y. Zhang, D. Wang, H. Dai
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- 18 April 2001
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are molecular wires that exhibit interesting structural, mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical properties. 1-3 A SWNT is unique among solidstate… Expand
Room-temperature all-semiconducting sub-10-nm graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors.
- X. Wang, Y. Ouyang, X. Li, H. Wang, J. Guo, H. Dai
- Physics, Medicine
- Physical review letters
- 24 March 2008
Sub-10 nm wide graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors (GNRFETs) are studied systematically. All sub-10 nm GNRs afforded semiconducting FETs without exception, with Ion/Ioff ratio up to 10(6)… Expand
Reversible electromechanical characteristics of carbon nanotubes underlocal-probe manipulation
- T. Tombler, C. Zhou, +6 authors Shi-Yu Wu
- Materials Science, Medicine
- Nature
- 15 June 2000
The effects of mechanical deformation on the electrical properties of carbonnanotubes are of interest given the practical potential of nanotubes in electromechanicaldevices, and they have been… Expand
Carbon nanotubes in biology and medicine: In vitro and in vivo detection, imaging and drug delivery
- Zhuang Liu, Scott M. Tabakman, Kevin Welsher, H. Dai
- Materials Science, Physics
- Nano research
- 23 January 2009
Carbon nanotubes exhibit many unique intrinsic physical and chemical properties and have been intensively explored for biological and biomedical applications in the past few years. In this… Expand
Circulation and long-term fate of functionalized, biocompatible single-walled carbon nanotubes in mice probed by Raman spectroscopy
- Zhuang Liu, C. Davis, W. Cai, L. He, X. Chen, H. Dai
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 5 February 2008
Carbon nanotubes are promising new materials for molecular delivery in biological systems. The long-term fate of nanotubes intravenously injected into animals in vivo is currently unknown, an issue… Expand
Hysteresis caused by water molecules in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors
Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors commonly comprise nanotubes lying on SiO2 surfaces exposed to the ambient environment. It is shown here that the transistors exhibit hysteresis in their… Expand
Nanotubes as nanoprobes in scanning probe microscopy
- H. Dai, Jason H. Hafner, Andrew G. Rinzler, D. Colbert, R. Smalley
- Chemistry
- Nature
- 1996
SINCE the invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope1, the value of establishing a physical connection between the macroscopic world and individual nanometre-scale objects has become… Expand