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    Fullerenes: Bucky Balls in the Therapeutic Application

    In 1985, when Kroto found the third allotropic structure of carbon after diamond and graphite. A study on fullerene C60 began, and it has shown an increasing significance in biological research. Fullerenes were d...

    Dipanjan Ghosh, Gouranga Dutta in Carbon Nanostructures in Biomedical Applic… (2023)

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    Applications of Block Copolymers as Stimuli-Responsive Copolymers

    Stimuli-responsive polymers (smart polymers) are macromolecules that change their physicochemical properties in response to specific triggers from the external environment (e.g., heat, light, electrical or mag...

    Gouranga Dutta, Nilayan Guha in Block Co-polymeric Nanocarriers: Design, C… (2023)

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    Carbon Nanohorns in Drug Delivery and Medical Applications

    In 1999, Iijima discovered a new component named Carbon nanohorns (CNHs) or Single walled carbon nanohorns (SWCNHs) along with other carbon nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, and graphene. CN...

    Gouranga Dutta, Nilayan Guha in Carbon Nanostructures in Biomedical Applic… (2023)