(Nazarbayev University, 2013) Toropov, A.; Aitbekova, A.; Babaa, M-R.; Mikhalovsky, S. V.
This project is about a technique to accelerate the degradation of antibiotics (for example Doxycycline) using a severe confined environment and a physical agent. The confining medium is carbon nanotubes (CNTs) because of their low internal diameter (of the order of 1 to 10 nanometers), high physicochemical stability, high mechanical strength, and presence of strong intermolecular forces at their inner surface that contribute to the degradation effect. This new technique will find a niche in pharmaceutical industries
where many processes are not sufficiently clean to eliminate a significant amount of antibiotic residues from waste streams.