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Toxicity of single-walled carbon nanotube: How we were wrong?

16 February 2010
Hong-Xuan Ren, Xing Chen, Jin-Huai Liu, Ning Gu, and Xing-Jiu Huang

The first issue that we address and justify in this paper is the pejorative and provocative tone of the title; the contradictory data on the toxic effects of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) make us believe that it is appropriate and necessary.

Two of the first studies in toxicity of carbon nanotube were by Chiu Wing Lam et al. and David Warheit et al., who reported that carbon nanotube can damage lung tissue in mice. Their works were subsequently introduced in Science in 2003. Since then, toxicity of carbon nanotube has become a fresh research topic and a number of papers have been dedicated to this field.

 

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