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Reducing the Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes Using Surface Modification Strategy

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Carbon-based nanoparticles have attracted much attention because of their unique properties like specific strength, lightness, electrical properties and also show several promising potential applications in biology and pharmacology. However, their growing use and mass production have raised several questions about their probable unfavourable effects on human health. For example, use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and fullerenes are there in maximum number of consumer products containing carbon-based nanomaterials and have been reportedly found in environmental samples (Farré et al. 2010).

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The authors would like to thank Department of Science and Technology (India) for supporting this study through the grant no: DST/TM/WTI/2K11/301(G) and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India) for offering the Summer Faculty Research Fellowship to the first author.

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    Jyoti Chawla

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India

    Arun Kumar

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Chawla, J., Kumar, A. (2015). Reducing the Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes Using Surface Modification Strategy. In: Raju, N., Gossel, W., Sudhakar, M. (eds) Management of Natural Resources in a Changing Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12559-6_13

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