Volume 47, Issue 27 pp. 5022-5025
Communication

Biocompatible Carbon Nanotubes Generated by Functionalization with Glycodendrimers

Peng Wu

Peng Wu

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA)

These authors contributed equally to the work.

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Xing Chen

Xing Chen

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA)

These authors contributed equally to the work.

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Nancy Hu

Nancy Hu

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA)

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Un Chong Tam

Un Chong Tam

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA)

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Ola Blixt

Ola Blixt

Carbohydrate Synthesis and Protein Expression Core D, Consortium for Functional Glycomics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 (USA)

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Alex Zettl Prof.

Alex Zettl Prof.

Department of Physics, University of California

Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA)

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Carolyn R. Bertozzi Prof.

Carolyn R. Bertozzi Prof.

Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California

The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (USA), Fax: (+1) 510-643-2628

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First published: 16 June 2008
Citations: 157

This work was supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098, within the Interfacing Nanostructures Initiative and NIH (K99M080585-01). Portions of this work were performed at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. 9 c was provided by Consortium for functional Glycomics.

Graphical Abstract

Protective coatings: Glycodendrimers can function as homogeneous bioactive coatings that mitigate the cytotoxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The bifunctional glycodendrimers (see picture) have peripheral carbohydrate units and a pyrene tail capable of binding SWNT surfaces through π–π interaction. Cells cultured with glycodendrimer-coated SWNTs proliferate at the same rate as untreated cells.

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