Single-Walled Nanotube/Amphiphile Hybrids for Efficacious Protein Delivery: Rational Modification of Dispersing Agents

摘要

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) represent a fascinating class of polyaromatic nanomaterials that have excellent optoelectronic properties, mechanical strength, and chemical stability. The inherent amphiphobicity of these extraordinary nanomaterials renders them repellent to solvents of extreme polarity, thus hindering their exploitation in different branches of science, including biomedicine. To counter this problem, exogenous dispersing agents have been used for the formation of soluble nanohybrids of single-walled or multi-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT/MWNTs) by debundling of CNTs.