《28.Current investigations on carbon nanotubes for biomedical application》.pdf

Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Current investigations into carbon nanotubes for biomedical application This article has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text article. 2010 Biomed. Mater. 5 022001 (/1748-605X/5/2/022001) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 7 The article was downloaded on 09/12/2011 at 10:44 Please note that terms and conditions apply. IOP PUBLISHING BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS Biomed. Mater. 5 (2010) 022001 (12pp) doi:10.1088/1748-6041/5/2/022001 TOPICAL REVIEW Current investigations into carbon nanotubes for biomedical application Xiaoming Li1,3, Yubo Fan1 and Fumio Watari2 1 Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, People’s Republic of China 2 Department of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8586, Japan E-mail: x.m.li@ Received 29 October 2009 Accepted for publication 26 February 2010 Published 25 March 2010 Online at /BMM/5/022001 Abstract The nano-dimensionality of nature has logically given rise to the interest in using nanomaterials in the biomedical field. Currently, a lot of investigations into carbon nanotubes (CNTs), as one of the typical nanomaterials, are being made for biomedical application. In this review, five parts, such as cellular functions induced by CNTs, apatite formation on CNTs, CNT-based tissue engineering scaffold, functionalized CNTs for the delivery of genes and drugs and CNT-based biosensors, are sta