In addition to metallic nanoparticles, carbon based materials such as fullerenes, nanotubes, nanodiamonds and graphene are important nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
In addition, silicone based materials, such as silicone elastomer, is also the basic constituent of tubing, microfluidic system, catheters, drains, shunts, joint implants, silastic mammary prostheses, and contact lenses [5].
Polymer-based nanomaterials, inorganic materials such as gold, iron oxide, and silica as well as carbon based materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene are being explored extensively for cancer therapy.
In fact, it has been reported that the range of fatty acid composition observed in Nigerian based materials such as the male parent palm T128 used in this study, extends beyond that of the breeding materials currently in use [ 33].
A wide variety of cellulose based materials such as nanofibrils, nanocrystals, nanofibers, nanoparticles, aerogels and ultrathin cellulose films have recently been explored, to give just a few examples (Schaub et al. 1993; Kontturi et al. 2003a, b; Eichhorn et al. 2010; Habibi et al. 2010; Moon et al. 2011; Olsson et al. 2010).
For example, the development of new healing growth factors based materials (such as Leukocyte- and Platelet-Rich Fibrin (L-PRF)) requires pharmacologic, biological, and tissue engineering concepts to be tested, validated, optimized, and finally redeveloped for extended applications in other fields [ 6, 9, 10].
The walls are either earth-based, i.e. Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs) or Adobe, or based on cement-based materials such as hollow concrete blocks.
Nanocomposites based on thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and graphene-based materials such as graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (RGO) was synthesized by in-situ solution polymerization technique.
A study by Dooley et al. showed that Australian oncology practitioners were found to mostly use paper-based materials such as textbooks and journals on CAM [ 20].
These properties might be used in memories based on PC materials (PCRAM), which operation relies on the fact that chalcogenide-based materials, such as phase-change alloys that contain Ge, Sb, and Te, can be reversibly switched from an amorphous phase ('0' state) to a crystalline phase ('1' state) or vice versa by an external electric current.
Due to very low thermal conductance and a relatively high power factor, these nanowires are found to exhibit better thermoelectric performance than other low-dimensional carbon-based materials such as carbon nanotubes.
