TY - CHAP AU - Wei Shao AU - Paul Arghya AU - Mai Yiyong AU - Laetitia Rodes AU - Satya Prakash ED - Satoru Suzuki Y1 - 2013-05-09 PY - 2013 T1 - Carbon Nanotubes for Use in Medicine: Potentials and Limitations N2 - Carbon nanotubes are rolled up graphene sheets with a quasi-one-dimensional structure of nanometer-scale diameter. In these last twenty years, carbon nanotubes have attracted much attention from physicists, chemists, material scientists, and electronic device engineers, because of their excellent structural, electronic, optical, chemical and mechanical properties. More recently, demand for innovative industrial applications of carbon nanotubes is increasing. This book covers recent research topics regarding syntheses techniques of carbon nanotubes and nanotube-based composites, and their applications. The chapters in this book will be helpful to many students, engineers and researchers working in the field of carbon nanotubes. BT - Syntheses and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Composites SP - Ch. 13 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/51785 DO - 10.5772/51785 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -