Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 432-442 , December 2009

Carbohydrate-conjugated multiwalled carbon nanotubes: development and characterization

Received 30 August 2008 ,Accepted 21 March 2009.

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 The authors are thankful to All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, India, for financial support.

 The authors are obliged to Inter University Consortium, Indore, India, for providing Raman and XRD facilities; All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India, for the electron microscopy facility; National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER), Mohali, India, for zeta potential and elemental analysis facilities; Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, for FT-IR studies.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2009.03.001

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 432-442 , December 2009

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