ABSTRACT

In the past two decades, the rapid progress of nanotechnology, ranging from novel nanoelectronics to molecular assemblies, to nanocomposites, tissue engineering, and biomedicine, has taken place. Nanomaterials, due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, and electronic properties, have restructured several aspects of current science and engineering. Also, the impact of nanomaterials is increasing in the society, health care, and the environment. Carbon nanomaterials have been used as platforms for ultrasensitive recognition of antibodies (Chen et al. 2003), as nucleic acids sequencers (Wang et al. 2003), and as bioseparators, biocatalysts (Mitchell et al. 2002), and ion channel blockers (Park et al. 2003) for facilitating biochemical reactions and biological processes.