Colloidal stability of carbon nanotubes in an aqueous dispersion of phospholipid

International Journal of Nanomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 761-766

  Douroumis, Dionysios ^a   Fatouros, Dimitrios G ^b   Bouropoulos, Nikolaos ^c   Papagelis, Kostas ^c   Tasis, Dimitrios ^c  

^a Phoqus Pharmaceuticals Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

potential; Carbon nanotubes; Drug delivery systems; Liposomes; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOLVENT; SURFACTANT;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; COLLOID; DISPERSION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOLUBILITY; SUPERNATANT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

COLLOIDS; LIPOSOMES; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; WATER;

EID: 68749100178     PISSN: 11769114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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