Journal of Tianjin Agricultural University ›› 2017, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (1): 88-92.

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Research Progress of Graphene and Its Derivatives Used as Drug Carrier

WANG Qian, LI Qing, WU Ting-fang, GUO Qiu-shuang, XU Yan-lingCorresponding Author   

  1. College of Basic Science, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin 300384, China
  • Received:2016-07-04 Online:2017-03-31 Published:2019-10-15

Abstract: As the new member of the carbon materials, graphene has brought up great interest of scientists since it was found at 2004. Graphene is a kind of two-dimensional crystal of a single atomic layer which has a honeycomb crystal lattice of carbon atoms in a sp2 hybrid link formation, exhibits many unique physical and chemical properties and excellent performance due to the unique structure. The current studies on graphene and its derivatives mainly concentrated on the field of the physics, chemistry and materials science. The application of graphene and its derivatives on medical materials and drug delivery is still in exploring stage and regarded as a challenging work. In this paper, the latest research progress in the application of graphene and its derivatives in drug carrier are mainly introduced. The existing problems in the application of graphene materials in drug carriers are also pointed out and the possible development is prospected.

Key words: graphene, oxide graphene, drug carrier

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