Multifunctional carbon-nanotube cellular endoscopes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-64

  Singhal, Riju ^a,c   Orynbayeva, Zulfiya ^a,b,c   Sundaram, Ramalingam Venkat Kalyana ^c   Niu, Jun Jie ^a,c   Bhattacharyya, Sayan ^a,c,d   Vitol, Elina A ^a,c   Schrlau, Michael G ^a,c   Papazoglou, Elisabeth S ^c   Friedman, Gary ^a,c   Gogotsi, Yury ^a,c  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG DELIVERY; ENDOSCOPY; GLASS; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; YARN;

CONICAL GEOMETRY; FLUID HANDLING; GLASS PIPETTE; MAGNETIC NANO-PARTICLES; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; PRECISE LOCATIONS; SINGLE CELL SURGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CALCIUM ION; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENDOSCOPE; FLUID FLOW; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MICROPIPETTE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBE ENDOSCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 78650619069     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.241     Document Type: Article

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