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Carbon-Based Nanofibers: Fullerenes, Diamond, and Carbon Nanostructures

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Carbon nanofiber (CNF) has been found as a promising member of carbon fibers which draw much attention of fundamental scientific researcher. CNF composites have wider applications and promising materials of future in many fields, such as electrical devices, electrode materials for batteries and supercapacitors, and as sensors. The electrical property of CNF composites largely counts on the dispersion and percolation status of CNFs in matrix materials; they facilitate efficient loading, targeted delivery, and controlled release of medicinal drugs. Other nanocarriers like fullerenes, carbon nanotube, graphene, and diamond have also attracted considerable attention with their unique features that include optical, mechanical, chemical, and thermal properties, raising tremendous interest for their potential pharmaceutical applications. This chapter apprehends various fabrication techniques like electrospinning for carbon-based nanofibers, chemistry behind the molecular structure of these carriers along with their importance in the targeted delivery.

This chapter emphasizes on the carbon-based structures by various techniques concerning to their physiochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. Several challenges and their possible resolutions including nanostructure conjugates in nanometric range, controlling stability promising drug delivery options due to symmetric nature, higher drug loading, nontoxic nature, and better cell targeting potentials are some of the applications discussed in details.

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  1. Centre of Biotechnology, Allahabad of University, Allahabad, UP, India

    Awadh Bihari Yadav

  2. Center of Biotechnology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, UP, India

    Charu Misra

  3. Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali, India

    Rahul Kumar Verma

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  1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Department of Materials and Chemistry (M Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

    Ahmed Barhoum

  2. Montpellier, France

    Mikhael Bechelany

  3. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley , Edinburg, USA

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Misra, C., Yadav, A.B., Verma, R.K. (2018). Carbon-Based Nanofibers: Fullerenes, Diamond, and Carbon Nanostructures. In: Barhoum, A., Bechelany, M., Makhlouf, A. (eds) Handbook of Nanofibers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42789-8_5-1

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