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The Functionalization Of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes For Bioapplications, Pu Zhang
The Functionalization Of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes For Bioapplications, Pu Zhang
Doctoral Dissertations
"In the past few years, the functionalization of carbon nanotubes has received considerable attention due to their extraordinary mechanical, electrical, optical and thermal properties. Using single wall carbon nanotube as a platform in bioanalytical and biomedical applications has also been extensively studied. This dissertation consists of four papers. In the first paper, various methods to functionalize single wall carbon nanotubes with immobilized enzyme for bioanalytical application were investigated. It was found that the covalent functionalization method was not an ideal methodology for enzyme addition neither in terms of enzyme loading amount nor activity retention compared to other methods. Use of …