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Plants and Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Interface: Present Status and Future Prospects

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The unique characteristics of nanomaterials utilizing carbon have drawn great attention and interest since the breakthrough of fullerenes (in 1985), carbon nanotubes (CNTs, in 1991), and graphene (in 2004). This discovery has led to the promotion of developing methods in order to produce it at large industrial scales. Engineered nanomaterials are continuously finding its applications in medical sector, technical devices, environmental purposes, as well as agricultural sector. Despite its wide applications, there is also the unintended release of carbon-based nanostructures into the environment, thereby affecting or posing inimical effect toward the living systems like plants. The researchers are trying to engineer such nanoparticles in a way that it may impose some advanced and beneficial applications in living systems. One of the engineered carbon-based nanomaterials includes carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which can be further classified as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), water-soluble multiwalled carbon nanotubes, functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes, double-walled carbon nanotubes etc. This chapter, therefore, focuses on all aforementioned types of carbon nanotubes, techniques utilized in synthesis, and current status of research with respect to the impact of carbon nanotubes on plant growth and development addressing relevant knowledge gap.

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Shweta et al. (2017). Plants and Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Interface: Present Status and Future Prospects. In: Prasad, R., Kumar, V., Kumar, M. (eds) Nanotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4678-0_16

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