TY - JOUR
T1 - Biomedical applications of carbon nanomaterials
T2 - Fullerenes, quantum dots, nanotubes, nanofibers, and graphene
AU - Gaur, Manish
AU - Misra, Charu
AU - Yadav, Awadh Bihari
AU - Swaroop, Shiv
AU - Maolmhuaidh, Fionn
AU - Bechelany, Mikhael
AU - Barhoum, Ahmed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) have received tremendous interest in the area of nanotechnology due to their unique properties and flexible dimensional structure. CNMs have excellent electrical, thermal, and optical properties that make them promising materials for drug delivery, bioimaging, biosensing, and tissue engineering applications. Currently, there are many types of CNMs, such as quantum dots, nanotubes, nanosheets, and nanoribbons; and there are many others in development that promise exciting applications in the future. The surface functionalization of CNMs modifies their chemical and physical properties, which enhances their drug loading/release capacity, their ability to target drug delivery to specific sites, and their dispersibility and suitability in biological systems. Thus, CNMs have been effectively used in different biomedical systems. This review explores the unique physical, chemical, and biological properties that allow CNMs to improve on the state of the art materials currently used in different biomedical applications. The discussion also embraces the emerging biomedical applications of CNMs, including targeted drug delivery, medical implants, tissue engineering, wound healing, biosensing, bioimaging, vaccination, and photodynamic therapy.
AB - Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) have received tremendous interest in the area of nanotechnology due to their unique properties and flexible dimensional structure. CNMs have excellent electrical, thermal, and optical properties that make them promising materials for drug delivery, bioimaging, biosensing, and tissue engineering applications. Currently, there are many types of CNMs, such as quantum dots, nanotubes, nanosheets, and nanoribbons; and there are many others in development that promise exciting applications in the future. The surface functionalization of CNMs modifies their chemical and physical properties, which enhances their drug loading/release capacity, their ability to target drug delivery to specific sites, and their dispersibility and suitability in biological systems. Thus, CNMs have been effectively used in different biomedical systems. This review explores the unique physical, chemical, and biological properties that allow CNMs to improve on the state of the art materials currently used in different biomedical applications. The discussion also embraces the emerging biomedical applications of CNMs, including targeted drug delivery, medical implants, tissue engineering, wound healing, biosensing, bioimaging, vaccination, and photodynamic therapy.
KW - Bioavailability
KW - Bioimaging
KW - Biomedical scaffold
KW - Biosensing
KW - Cytotoxicity
KW - Drug delivery
KW - Photodynamic therapy
KW - Tissue engineering
KW - Vaccination
KW - Wound healing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85117230563
U2 - 10.3390/ma14205978
DO - 10.3390/ma14205978
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85117230563
SN - 1996-1944
VL - 14
JO - Materials
JF - Materials
IS - 20
M1 - 5978
ER -
