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Review
. 2014:4:e28537.
doi: 10.4161/biom.28537. Epub 2014 Mar 19.

Nanocarbon surfaces for biomedicine

Giacomo Reina  1 , Emanuela Tamburri  2 , Silvia Orlanducci  2 , Stefano Gay  2 , Roberto Matassa  2 , Valeria Guglielmotti  1 , Teresa Lavecchia  2 , Maria Letizia Terranova  2 , Marco Rossi  3
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Review

Nanocarbon surfaces for biomedicine

Giacomo Reina et al. Biomatter. 2014.

Abstract

The distinctive physicochemical, mechanical and electrical properties of carbon nanostructures are currently gaining the interest of researchers working in bioengineering and biomedical fields. Carbon nanotubes, carbon dendrimers, graphenic platelets and nanodiamonds are deeply studied aiming at their application in several areas of biology and medicine. Here we provide a summary of the carbon nanomaterials prepared in our labs and of the fabrication techniques used to produce several biomedical utilities, from scaffolds for tissue growth to cargos for drug delivery and to biosensors.

Keywords: bio-nanomaterials; carbon nanostructures; nanomedicine; scaffolds.

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Figures

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Figure 1. SEM images of: (A) deposits of vertically aligned SWCNT grown on selected areas of a patterned substrate; (B) helical carbon nanostructures; (C) carbon dendrimers; and (D) large area deposit of entangled SWCNT mats horizontally placed on a substrate.
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Figure 2. SEM images of: (A) overlapped platelets in a plane perpendicular to the e-beam; (B and C) some isolated/individual platelets with the e-beam near-parallel to their surfaces.
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Figure 3. (A and B) SEM images of all-diamond solid structures produced with nanodiamond particles.
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Figure 4. SEM images of diamond (A and B) nanocones, (C) nanopillars and (D) nanowhiskers produced by the sculpturing of plane diamond films by means of MW-RF CVD plasma reactor.
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