Search results for buckyballs
Manufactured Buckyballs don't harm microbes that clean the environment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Even large amounts of manufactured nanoparticles, also known as Buckyballs, don't faze microscopic organisms that are charged with cleaning up the environment, according to Purdue University researchers.
Citrate appears to control buckyball clumping but environmental concerns remain
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Fullerenes, also fondly known as buckyballs, are showing an ugly side. Since being discovered in 1985, the hollow carbon atoms have been adapted for nanotechnology and biomedical applications ranging from electronics to carriers ...
Tiny buckyballs squeeze hydrogen like giant Jupiter
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Hydrogen could be a clean, abundant energy source, but it's difficult to store in bulk. In new research, materials scientists at Rice University have made the surprising discovery that tiny carbon capsules called buckyballs ...
Buckyball birth observed by Sandia nanotech researcher
Nov 21, 2007 |
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Almost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia’s Jianyu Huang has seen one being born.
Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'
Oct 26, 2007 |
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The birth secret of buckyballs -- hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA -- has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An electron microscope video and computer ...
Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find
Sep 14, 2007 |
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A game of billiards may never get smaller than this. Physicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene – a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings – can act as an atomic-scale ...
Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2007 |
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New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much ...
Quantum analog of Ulam's conjecture can guide molecules, reactions
Aug 07, 2007 |
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Like navigating spacecraft through the solar system by means of gravity and small propulsive bursts, researchers can guide atoms, molecules and chemical reactions by utilizing the forces that bind nuclei and electrons into ...
Researchers develop inexpensive, easy process to produce solar panels
Jul 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets.
Researchers develop buckyballs to fight allergy
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 20, 2007 |
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A research team has identified a new biological function for a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle called a buckyball – the ability to block allergic response, setting the stage for the development of new therapies for allergy.
When it comes to risk, not all nanomaterials are created equal
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 25, 2007 |
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The size, type, and dispersion of nanomaterials could all play a role in how these materials impact human health and the environment, according to two groups of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ...
Test finds manufactured nanoparticles don't harm soil ecology
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 22, 2007 |
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The first published study on the environmental impact of manufactured nanoparticles on ordinary soil showed no negative effects, which is contrary to concerns voiced by some that the microscopic particles could ...
Physicists tailor magnetic pairings in nanoscale semiconductors
Mar 14, 2007 |
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Electrons love to zip around metals such as copper, especially if the metal is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero. But if they encounter a magnetic atom (say, iron) during their travels, the electrons will try to "screen," ...
Buckyballs Ferry Drugs into Cancer Cells Safely
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 29, 2007 |
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Scientists at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new type of buckyball nanoparticle that acts as a passkey, allowing peptide-based drugs to enter cancer cells.
Buckyballs used as 'passkey' into cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 18, 2007 |
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Scientists at Rice University and pediatric specialists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a new way to use Rice's famed buckyball nanoparticles as passkeys that allows drugs to enter cancer cells.
