Mezzasalma, Stefano A.; Gracia, Lucia; Grassi, Mario (2021) Physical and chemical properties of carbon nanotubes in view of mechanistic neuroscience investigations. Some outlook from condensed matter, materials science and physical chemistry. Materials Science & Engineering C, 131 . ISSN 0928-4931
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Abstract
The open border between non-living and living matter, suggested by increasingly emerging felds of nanoscience interfaced to biological systems, requires a detailed knowledge of nanomaterials properties. An account of the wide spectrum of phenomena, belonging to physical chemistry of interfaces, materials science, solid state physics at the nanoscale and bioelectrochemistry, thus is acquainted for a comprehensive application of carbon nanotubes interphased with neuron cells. This review points out a number of conceptual tools to further address the ongoing advances in coupling neuronal networks with (carbon) nanotube meshworks, and to deepen the basic issues that govern a biological cell or tissue interacting with a nanomaterial. Emphasis is given here to the properties and roles of carbon nanotube systems at relevant spatiotemporal scales of individual molecules, junctions and molecular layers, as well as to the point of view of a condensed matter or materials scientist. Carbon nanotube interactions with blood-brain barrier, drug delivery, biocompatibility and functionalization issues are also regarded.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Carbon nanotubes; Neuronal cells; Charge transport; Percolation; Nanobiotechnology; Drug delivery |
| Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics > Condensed Matter Physics NATURAL SCIENCES > Chemistry > Physical Chemistry |
| Divisions: | Division of Materials Physics |
| Depositing User: | Jordi Sancho Parramon |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2022 14:28 |
| URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/7683 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.msec.2021.112480 |
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