Carbon nanotubes have unique properties like high stability, high surface to mass ratio and so on which make them suitable for medicinal purpose applications. Treatment of cancer by organoplatinum agents like Cisplatin has become unresponsive in most cases due to low distribution of drug in biological fluids, inability of drug to cross cellular membranes and low stability in biological environm...

Pure polyamide 6 (PA6) and polyamide 6/carbon nanotube (PA6/CNT) composite samples with 0.5 weight percent loading of pristine or functionalized CNTs were made using a solution mixing technique. Modification of nanotube surface as a result of chemical functionalization was confirmed through the presence of lattice defects as examined under high-resolution transmission electron microscope and ab...

Green Polyvinyl Alcohol Interfacial crosslinking of green polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polycaprolactone (PCL) bilayer dielectric provides a barrier to moisture improves single walled carbon nanotube-based device performance. Benoit Lessard co-workers report functionalized PCL which crosslinks with the hydroxy groups PVA layer through simple heat treatment, providing candidate material for high p...

Hydroxyapatite (HAp) and hydroxyapatite/multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) composites were obtained by the co-precipitation method, followed ultrasound-assisted microwave radiation thermal treatment at 250 °C. X-ray diffraction (XRD) confirmed presence of a hexagonal phase in all samples, while Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy elucidated interaction between HAp MWCNTs. The photo...

in this study the effect of using multi-walled carbon nanotube (mwcnt) on flexural and compressive strengths, ultimate displacement and energy absorption capability of standard cement mortar considering different weight percentages of nanotubes as well as different dispersion methods has been investigated. influential point in adding nanotubes to the composites is their proper dispersion, which...

l Precise control over the electronic properties of the carbon nanotubes is key to their practical application in plastic electronics. In the present work, we have extended carbon nanotube functionalization via a 2-2 cycloaddition to electron withdrawing non-fluorinated olefins as well. Our results show that this is a fairly general approach, independent of specifics of the adderid, to converti...

We have created stable dispersions of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in water by employing a noncovalent functionalization scheme that allows carboxylic acid moieties to be attached to the SWNT surface by a pi-pi stacking interaction. Pyrenecarboxylic acid (PCA) is noncovalently attached to the surface of SWNTs and affords highly uniform and stable aqueous dispersions. This method was dev...