Multiwalled carbon nanotube–doxorubicin supramolecular complexes for cancer therapeutics
- 14 November 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 4,p. 459-461
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b712350g
Abstract
Multiwalled carbon nanotube aqueous dispersions using block copolymers are able to form supramolecular complexes with the aromatic chromophore and anticancer agent doxorubicinvia π–π stacking and enhance its cytotoxic activity.Keywords
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