Carbon nanotubes and their toxicity

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 167-197

  Jain, Amit K ^a   Mehra, Neelesh Kumar ^a   Lodhi, Neeraj ^a   Dubey, Vaibhav ^a   Mishra, Dinesh K ^a   Jain, Parijat K ^b   Jain, Narendra K ^a  

^a DR H S GOUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocompatibility; Carbon nanoforms; Carbon nanotubes; Fullerenes; Functionalization; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; FULLERENE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 36549069227     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17435390701639688     Document Type: Review

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