Issue 7, 2005
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Chemical Communications

Single-walled carbon nanotubes displaying multivalent ligands for capturing pathogens†

Lingrong Gu,a   Tara Elkin,a   Xiuping Jiang,b   Huaping Li,a   Yi Lin,a   Liangwei Qu,a   Tzuen-Rong J. Tzeng,c   Ronalda Josepha  and  Ya-Ping Sun*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
E-mail: syaping@clemson.edu

b Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA

c Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
E-mail: syaping@clemson.edu
Fax: +1-864-656-5007
Tel: +1-864-656-5026

Abstract

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.

Graphical abstract: Single-walled carbon nanotubes displaying multivalent ligands for capturing pathogens

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B415015E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Sep 2004
Accepted
09 Nov 2004
First published
17 Dec 2004

Chem. Commun., 2005, 874-876

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Single-walled carbon nanotubes displaying multivalent ligands for capturing pathogens

L. Gu, T. Elkin, X. Jiang, H. Li, Y. Lin, L. Qu, T. J. Tzeng, R. Joseph and Y. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2005, 874 DOI: 10.1039/B415015E

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