Present and Future Applications of Carbon Nanotubes to Analytical Science

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Modified glassy carbon electrode with multiwall carbon nanotubes as a voltammetric sensor for determination of noscapine in biological and pharmaceutical samples

“…Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) continue to receive remarkable attention in electrochemistry [25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Since its discovery by Iijima [32] in 1991 using transmission electron microscopy, CNTs have been the subject of numerous investigations in chemical, physical and materials areas due to their Scheme 1.…”

Characterization of carbon nanotubes and analytical methods for their determination in environmental and biological samples: A review

“…Both types of CNTs have many potential applications in various industrial areas in large volumes: e.g., in nanocomposites for sporting materials, as battery electrodes, in supercapacitors, transparent films and liquid crystal displays. Other limited-volume applications include their use as components in wind turbine blades, scanning probe tips, membrane filters and sorbents, flat panel displays, memory devices, hydrogen-storage electrodes, biosensors, multitip array X-ray sources, transistors, drug delivery systems, as well as other medical and analytical chemistry applications [2,3]. The demand created by these applications has led to significant growth in the global market for CNTs.…”

Structure and electronic properties of “DNA–gold–nanotube” systems: A quantum chemical analysis

“…Recent experimental and theoretical studies reported that amongst the nucleotides, adenine base has the highest affinity to gold particles [9] and preferentially binds to a nitrogen atom at the N7 position [10]. Furthermore, there is considerable interest in applying carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as charge-transport centers for electronic transducers [11][12][13][14][15]. Hence, several experiments have focused on the deposition of Au NPs onto CNTs [16][17][18][19] and there is increasing attraction to exploit a compatible assembly of them as nanoscale building-blocks for DNA detection [20].…”