Carbon Nanotubes Deliver in Medicine.

CARBON nanotubes; DRUG carriers; NANOMEDICINE; DRUG delivery systems; CANCER cell growth; FUNCTIONAL groups; SURFACE chemistry; PREVENTION

The article discusses carbon nanotubes as a drug delivery vehicle in medicine. Topics include the properties that make carbon nanotubes useful for a wide-range of nanotechnology applications, how a process called functionalization can help tackle the major challenge of carbon nanotube surface chemistry, which makes them aggregate in clusters in the aqueous environment of the body, and experiments by the author and his colleagues testing the uptake of nanotubes in lung cancer cells.