Carbon Nanotubes in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: An introduction to Future Drug Delivery System
Recent discoveries indicate that the materials are bought down in sizes in the range 1-100nm, these exhibits unique electrical, optical, chemical and pharmaceutical properties. Methods have now been established to obtain the monodispersed nanocrystals of various metallic and semi conducting materials, single walled and multiwalled nanotubes of carbon and other metallic and non metallic materials together with organic nanomaterials such as nanostructures composites with tailored functionalities. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have great impact on the development of newer methodologies and devices useful for the analysis and the detection of various types of chemicals. The detection sensitivity can be increased many folds. The extraordinary properties of carbon nanotubes have led to demonstration of several applications of CNTs. But commercial realization of these CNTs and CNTs based devices require consistent quality of CNTs and these should be free of any impurity. Such demanding requiremen...