Electrochemistry

Carbon Nanostructures

Carbon nanotubes are enormus molecules of pure carbon that are long and thin and shaped like tubes, about 1-3 nanometres (1 nm = 1 billionth of a meter) in diameter, and hundreds to thousands of nanometres long. Carbon is a versatile element and can form various allotropes, including graphite, diamond, and fullerene-like structures. Thin carbon layers are considered as a prospective material for a wide range of biomedical application e.g. tissue regeneration , controlled drug delivery , surface coating for bone-related implants, increase of resistance to microbial adherence, blood interfacing implants applications or neuronal growth. Fullerenes transmit photoluminescence which could be utilized in advanced imaging technologies. Carbon nanoparticles, nanotubes and nanodiamonds, are considered as promising building blocks for the construction of novel  nanomaterial’s for emerging industrial technologies, such as molecular electronics, advanced optics or storage of hydrogen as a potential source of energy.