Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotube Cups for Cancer Therapy.

ABSTRACT: Carbon nanomaterials have attracted significant attention for a variety of biomedical applications including sensing and detection, photothermal therapy, and delivery of therapeutic cargo. The ease of chemical functionalization, tunable length scales and morphologies, and ability to undergo complete enzymatic degradation make carbon nanomaterials an ideal drug delivery system. Much work has been done to synthesize carbon nanomaterials ranging from carbon dots, graphene, and carbon nanotubes to carbon nanocapsules, specifically carbon nanohorns or nitrogen-doped carbon nanocups. Here, we analyze specific properties of nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube cups which have been designed and utilized as drug delivery systems with the focus on the loading of these nanocapsules with specific therapeuti

SUBMITTER: Burkert SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9879341 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature