Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications

1. Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes for Therapeutic Applications
Vittoria Raffa, Orazio Vittorio, Cristina Riggio, Gianni Ciofani, Alfred Cuschieri

2. Carbon Nanotubes in Regenerative Medicine
Bhavna S. Paratala, Balaji Sitharaman

3. Filling of Carbon Nanotubes with Compounds in Solution or Melted Phase
P. Lukanov, C.-M. Tîlmaciu, A. M. Galibert, B. Soula, E. Flahaut

4. Filling of Carbon Nanotubes: Containers for Magnetic Probes and Drug Delivery
E. Borowiak-Palen, C. Tripisciano, M. Rümmeli, S. Costa, X. Chen, R. J. Kalenczuk

5. Magnetic Nanoparticles for Diagnosis and Medical Therapy
Martin Sobik, Kirsten M. Pondman, Ben Erné, Bonny Kuipers, Bennie ten Haken, Horst Rogalla

6. Feasibility of Magnetically Functionalised Carbon Nanotubes for Biological Applications: From Fundamental Properties of Individual Nanomagnets to Nanoscaled Heaters and Temperature Sensors
Matthias U. Lutz, Kamil Lipert, Yulia Krupskaya, Stefan Bahr, Anja Wolter, Ahmed A. El-Gendy, Silke Hampel, Albrecht Leonhardt, Arthur Taylor, Kai Krämer, Bernd Büchner, Rüdiger Klingeler

7. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging of Carbon Nanotubes
Vijay K. Anuganti, Aldrik H. Velders

8. Exploring Carbon Nanotubes and Their Interaction with Cells Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Constanze Lamprecht, Andreas Ebner, Ferry Kienberger, Peter Hinterdorfer

9. Uptake, Intracellular Localization and Biodistribution of Carbon Nanotubes
V. Neves, H. M. Coley, J. McFadden, S. R. P. Silva

10. Recognition of Carbon Nanotubes by the Human Innate Immune System
Malgorzata J. Rybak-Smith, Kirsten M. Pondman, Emmanuel Flahaut, Carolina Salvador-Morales, Robert B. Sim

11. Toxicity and Environmental Impact of Carbon Nanotubes
E. Flahaut

12. Carbon Nanotubes Loaded with Anticancer Drugs: A Platform for Multimodal Cancer Treatment
Elena Heister, Vera Neves, S. Ravi P. Silva, Johnjoe McFadden, Helen M. Coley

13. Carbon Nanotubes Filled with Carboplatin: Towards Carbon Nanotube-Supported Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Agents
D. Haase, S. Hampel, K. Kraemer, D. Kunze, A. Taylor, M. Arlt, J. Thomas, S. Oswald, M. Ritschel, R. Klingeler, A. Leonhardt, B. Büchner

14. Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Gene Biodelivery
V. Sanz-Beltrán, Ravi Silva, Helen Coley, Johnjoe McFadden

Keywords: Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Biomaterials, Biochemical Engineering, Cell Biology