ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises the recent published outcomes on the interaction of carbon nanostructures with lipids. Lipid membranes are the most simplified representation of cell membranes, the first barrier that carbon nanotubes (CNT) affront in their encounter with living cells. The chapter shows expect that the assessment of the field might enable connections between experimental and theoretical work giving insights into the physical mechanisms than guide internalization of CNT into cells and other biological processes such as toxicity, signaling, and biodegradation. It describes the CNT–lipid system, the experimental evidence of the interaction of CNT with lipids. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that interactions between CNT and Lipids (DPPC) is concentration dependent where the hydrophobic part of the lipid is absorbed on the surface of the CNT and the hydrophilic part is oriented toward the aqueous phase. The chapter discusses the recently published results on experimental and theoretical models, and finally summarizes some perspectives and conclusions.
