Carbon Nanomaterials for Bioimaging, Bioanalysis, and Therapy

Preface

Carbon nanomaterials have different shapes and structures, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, fullerenes, carbon nanodots, and carbon nanohorns, which have been widely applied for biomedical applications in the past few decades. However, not every carbon nanomaterial is promising for the respective applications. During the production of this book, we interviewed our chapter contributors to propose the best three carbon nanomaterials in their field of interest and share their valuable opinions here. It is interesting to find that carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanodiamonds are the popular choices among our contributors. Their discussions about various biomedical applications of carbon nanomaterials can be found in the forthcoming chapters.

This book focuses on the application of carbon nanomaterial for bioimaging and bioanalysis. They form an important basis for modern diagnostics. Bioimaging can help us visualize biological structure and function at both microscopic and macroscopic levels. Imaging provides detailed information about biological structures. For instance, magnetic resonance imaging, X‐rays, radio imaging, ultrasound imaging, and optical imaging are now routinely applied for disease diagnosis. We are interested in fluorescence imaging, the most widely used optical method, because it offers resolution down to the submicrometer scale near the surface. (Carbon nanomaterials, such as nanodiamonds, have already been applied for super‐resolution ...