How do functionalized carbon nanotubes land on, bind to and pierce through model and plasma membranes

Asbestos-like Pathogenicity of Long Carbon Nanotubes Alleviated by Chemical Functionalization

(2013) Hanene Ali-Boucetta et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Translocation mechanisms of chemically functionalised carbon nanotubes across plasma membranes

(2012) Lara Lacerda et al.   BIOMATERIALS

How long a functionalized carbon nanotube can passively penetrate a lipid membrane

(2012) Sebastian Kraszewski et al.   CARBON

Probing the Structure of Lysozyme-Carbon-Nanotube Hybrids with Molecular Dynamics

(2012) Matteo Calvaresi et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Effect of Chirality and Length on the Penetrability of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes into Lipid Bilayer Cell Membranes

(2012) A. Alipour Skandani et al.   LANGMUIR

Intercellular Carbon Nanotube Translocation Assessed by Flow Cytometry Imaging

(2012) Iris Marangon et al.   NANO LETTERS

Insertion of Short Amino-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes into Phospholipid Bilayer Occurs by Passive Diffusion

(2012) Sebastian Kraszewski et al.   PLoS One

Uptake and Translocation Mechanisms of Cationic Amino Derivatives Functionalized on Pristine C60 by Lipid Membranes: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

(2011) Sebastian Kraszewski et al.   ACS Nano

Carbon Nanotube Wins the Competitive Binding over Proline-Rich Motif Ligand on SH3 Domain

(2011) Guanghong Zuo et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Cell entry of one-dimensional nanomaterials occurs by tip recognition and rotation

(2011) Xinghua Shi et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Control Performance and Biomembrane Disturbance of Carbon Nanotube Artificial Water Channels by Nitrogen-Doping

(2010) Yuling Yang et al.   ACS Nano

Plugging into Proteins: Poisoning Protein Function by a Hydrophobic Nanoparticle

(2010) Guanghong Zuo et al.   ACS Nano

One-Dimensional Protein-Based Nanoparticles Induce Lipid Bilayer Disruption: Carbon Nanotube Conjugates and Amyloid Fibrils

(2010) Atsushi Hirano et al.   LANGMUIR

Carbon nanotubes in biology and medicine: In vitro and in vivo detection, imaging and drug delivery

(2009) Zhuang Liu et al.   Nano Research

Physicochemical properties affecting cellular uptake of carbon nanotubes

(2009) Vittoria Raffa et al.   Nanomedicine

Promises, facts and challenges for carbon nanotubes in imaging and therapeutics

(2009) K. Kostarelos et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Induced stepwise conformational change of human serum albumin on carbon nanotube surfaces

(2008) Jia-Wei Shen et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Simulations of Electrophoretic RNA Transport Through Transmembrane Carbon Nanotubes

(2008) Urs Zimmerli et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Identification of Possible Sources of Nanotoxicity from Carbon Nanotubes Inserted into Membrane Bilayers Using Membrane Interaction Quantitative Structure−Activity Relationship Analysis

(2008) Jianzhong Liu et al.   CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN TOXICOLOGY

Single-Particle Tracking of Endocytosis and Exocytosis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in NIH-3T3 Cells

(2008) Hong Jin et al.   NANO LETTERS