ALIGNING CARBON NANOTUBES TO AID ARTIFICIAL JOINTS

摘要

Researchers at Purdue Univ.(West Lafayette,IN; www.purdue.edu) have developed a method that,for the first time,allows the alignment of osteoblasts (bone-forming cells) on arrays of carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that are in either a polymer matrix or SiO2 substrate,respectively.