Photoinduced antiviral carbon nanohorns

Eijiro Miyako, Hideya Nagata, Ken Hirano, Kotaro Sakamoto, Yoji Makita, Kenichi Nakayama, Takahiro Hirotsu

Nanotechnology · 2008 · 57 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

Nanocarbons, such as carbon nanohorns (CNH) and carbon nanotubes, are materials of interest in many fields of science and technology because of their remarkable physical properties. We report here a novel approach for using NIR laser-driven CNH as an antiviral agent. NIR laser-driven functional CNH complexes could open the way to a new range of antiviral materials.

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