Drug Delivery and Detection
Semiconducting CNTs may prove useful for targeted drug delivery (estimated to become an $80.2B industry by 2014).
Anti-cancer drugs may be delivered more efficaciously and with fewer systemic side-effects using a "smart" nanotechnology platform than by conventional methods. Small-diameter semiconducting SWNTs represent one such promising platform, due to their strong absorbance in the so-called therapeutic infrared window (between 700-1100 nm, depending on body tissue type).
