Nanoparticles: Inorganic Nanoparticles- Carbon Based

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Carbon Nanoparticles - such as carbon nanotubes, comprise a single layer of graphite in either a sheet or cylindrical conformation.

Advantages:

• Excellent loading capacities
• unique optical and electrical properties,
• and low synthetic costs make them promising candidates for several applications, especially imaging and diagnostics

Limitations:

• Poor biodegradability
• pulmonary damage,
• undesirable organ accumulation, hindering the adoption of carbon based nanoparticles for in vivo applications