Coating nanotubes with aluminum oxide lowers risk of lung injury
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 08:20
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org) —A new study from North Carolina State University and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) finds that coating multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with aluminum oxide reduces the risk of lung scarring, or pulmonary fibrosis, in mice.