Carbon Nano Tubes for Bone Tissue Engineering

Another great area for CNT's, the list of uses seems to just get bigger and bigger and those with the best and cheapest will be the winners?

If you can make it in the medical field? the world is your oyster, as if it isn't already?
We are on the cusp of something huge, the new applications are only starting to be revealed, this may only be the beginning?
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/8/8/2252/htm

4. Carbon Nano Tubes for Bone Tissue Engineering

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure and constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 28,000,000:1. These cylindrical carbon molecules have novel properties, which make them potentially useful in many applications in nanotechnology, electronics, optics and materials sciences. CNTs have a high Young’s modulus (1.0–1.8 TPa), high tensile strength (30–200 GPa) and high elongation at break (10–30%). In addition, they have extremely small size (about 1–10 nm in diameter), high aspect ratio (>1,000), high structural and chemical stability, and stiffness, as well as remarkable electrical, thermal, optical and bioactive properties [61,62]. All these properties make CNTs especially promising candidates as reinforcement fillers in the development of nano composites. It has been observed that the combination of CNT with CTS leads to an enormous increase in the mechanical strength of the composite [63].

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742706111001310