Researchers at Purdue University have learned how to detect both metallic and semiconducting nanotubes within biological tissue.
False-color transient absorption micrograph shows both metallic (red) and semiconducting (green) single-walled carbon nanotubes in live hamster cells.
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
Single-walled carbon nanotubes have unique optical properties that may hinder imaging them in vivo. Researchers at Purdue University (U.S.A.) have learned how to detect both metallic and semiconducting nanotubes within biological tissue (Nat. Nanotechnol., doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.210).
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