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Single-walled carbon nanotubes displaying multivalent ligands for capturing pathogens

2004; Royal Society of Chemistry; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1039/b415015e

1364-548X

Lingrong Gu, Tara Elkin, Xiuping Jiang, Huaping Li, Yi Lin, Liangwei Qu, Tzuen‐Rong Tzeng, Ronalda Joseph, Ya‐Ping Sun,

Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

A single-walled carbon nanotube was exploited for its semi-flexible pseudo-one-dimensional nanostructure as a unique scaffold to display multivalent carbohydrate ligands, with a specific demonstration showing that galactosylated carbon nanotubes were effective in the capturing of pathogenic Escherichia coli in solution.