Review Article

Applications and Nanotoxicity of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene in Biomedicine

Figure 3

The cellular uptake pathways, subcellular localization and intracellular trafficking of differently functionalized CNTs. (a) Supermolecularly functionalized CNT via endocytosis, (b) covalently functionalized CNT bound with drugs via endocytosis, and (c) individual or specifically functionalized CNT via direct penetration (reproduced with permission from [130]).
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