Authors: Giuseppe Cirillo Tommaso Caruso Silke Hampel Diana Haase Francesco Puoci Manfred Ritschel Albrecht Leonhardt Manuela Curcio Francesca Iemma Vyacheslav Khavrus Mandy Grobosch Nevio Picci
Publish Date: 2012/09/07
Volume: 291, Issue: 3, Pages: 699-708
Abstract
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes were chemically functionalized with methacrylic acid and methacrylated bovine serum albumin by free radical grafting reaction to obtain novel nanocomposites The nanotubes were synthesized by aerosolassisted chemical vapor deposition and then the monomers were directly grafted by the action of hydrogen peroxide/ascorbic acid redox pair which allows operating in watercompatible and ecofriendly environment without the generation of any toxic reaction byproduct A multitechnique approach was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the grafting process employing Fourier transform infrared Raman Xray photoelectron spectroscopy scanning electron microscopy transmission electron microscopy and thermogravimetric analyses Considering the high importance of methacrylate polymers and bovine serum albumin the proposed nanocomposites could be of great applicability in biomedical and pharmaceutical fieldsThis work was financially supported by MIUR Programma di ricerca di rilevante interesse nazionale 2008 University of Calabria funds Financial support of Regional Operative Program ROP Calabria ESF 2007/2013–IV Axis Human Capital–Operative Objective M″–Action D5 is also gratefully acknowledged
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