Carbon-based smart nanomaterials in biomedicine and neuroengineering

• Antonina M. Monaco and
• Michele Giugliano

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1849–1863, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.196

• have been studied by Ariano and co-workers [126] and by Thalhammer and colleagues [130], who observed that oxygen functionalisation [126] and deposition of a layer of 5–10 nm sized ND particles (NDPs) [130] (Figure 4a) improved cell attachment and did not compromise neuronal electrical activity. This