Novel Hybrid Nanomaterials

We have fabricated novel hybrid nanomaterials combining various forms of carbon nanotubes (single walled, multiwalled and aligned) with a range of lipid molecules. They are potentially useful for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.

We are currently exploring other avenues of developing novel hybrid materials (e.g. lipid-hydrogel matrices) and working towards their applications in bio-and nano-technological fields.

Related Publications

Facile Preparation of Internally Self-assembled Lipid Particles Stabilized by Carbon Nanotubes.Y.Patil-Sen, A. Sadeghpour, M. Rappolt and C.V. Kulkarni* Journal of Visualized Experiments, (2015) In Press.

Carbon Nanotubes for Stabilization of Nanostructured Lipid Particles. Nicholas P. Gaunt, Yogita Patil-Sen, Matthew J. Baker, Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni* (2015) Nanoscale, 7, 1090-1095

Lipid-Hydrogel Films for Sustained Drug Release. Kulkarni,C.V*, Z. Moinuddin, Y. Patil-Sen, R. Littlefield, and M. Hood (2015)Int. J. Pharmaceutics, 479, 416-421.

Enhancing the hydrogen storage capacity of Pd-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes Singh, P., M. V. Kulkarni, S. Gokhale, S. H. Chikkali and C. V. Kulkarni* (2012) App.Surf.Sci., 258 (8): 3405-3409

Synthesis of “Designer” Nanofillers with Tailored Surface Functionalities Agrawal V., C. V. Kulkarni and K. Guruswamy.* (2004) MACRO-2004, Int. Conf. on Polymers for Adv. Technologies. Thiruvananthapuram, India, Preprint.