Recent researches about the application of carbon nanotubes（CNTs） in tissue engineering cell scaffold have developed rapidly. Cell culture suggest that CNTs displayed high rate of cell attachment and growth in vitro culture of most kinds of cells. Higher mechanical strength is also observed after CNTs is combined with other materials. So CNTs can be used for cell scaffold material of tissue engineering, and can be applied to several fields such as tissue engineering of bone, nerve and blood vessel. The related researches and the prospect of the application of CNTs in cell scaffold of bone tissue engineering are mainly reviewed in this paper.
