Oxygen Adsorption by Carbon Nanotubes and Its Application in Radiotherapy | Chapter 17 | Diagnostic and Treatment Advances in COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2

 The ability to deliver large molecules, for example nucleic acids, to cells using carbon nanotubes has been reviewed. Potential applications of functionalised nanotubes to deliver oxygen to cancer cells to enhance the effects of radiotherapy are considered.

Author(s) Details:

J. Yang,
Nanobiology Center, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, P.R. China and Life Science School of Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, P.R. China.

Wenxin Li,
Nanobiology Center, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, P.R. China.

Q. Li,
Nanobiology Center, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, P.R. China.

S. Wu,
Nanobiology Center, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, P.R. China.

B. Yu,
Nanobiology Center, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, P.R. China.

X. Jing,
Department of Radiobiology, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, P.R. China.

Wenjian Li,
Department of Radiobiology, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, P.R. China.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/DTACSC/article/view/9569