The emerging field of nanotechnology is affirming its increasing importance day
by day. In this context fullerenes and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) play an important
role. These new allotropic forms of carbon have been discovered in the last two
decades, and, since then, they have stimulated the curiosity and interest of physicists
and chemists.
This book is the first of a new series entitled “Carbon Materials:
Chemistry and Physics”, the purpose of which is to analyze the new frontiers of
carbon.
This volume summarizes the more recent advances on fullerenes and carbon
nanotubes facing the biological-medical horizon, an important and interesting area
to the scientific community.
We will present general overviews of fullerenes and CNTs that are state-ofthe-art
in biomedical applications, deepening their principal and more promising
exploitations