Search results for buckyballs
Repetitive motion speeds nanoparticle uptake
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Newly published research by Rice University chemists and North Carolina State University toxicologists finds that repetitive movement can speed the uptake of nanoparticles through the skin.
Flexible electronics advance boosts performance, manufacturing
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Flexible electronics made with organic, or carbon-based, transistors could enable technologies such as low-cost sensors on product packaging and ''electronic paper'' displays as thin and floppy as a placemat. ...
New Technique Studies How Plastic Solar Cells Turn Sunlight into Electricity
Dec 11, 2006 |
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A new analytical technique that uses infrared spectroscopy to study light-sensitive organic materials could lead to the development of cheaper, more efficient solar cells. Using infrared (IR) spectroscopy to ...
Improbable 'buckyegg' hatched
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2006 |
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An egg-shaped fullerene, or "buckyball egg" has been made and characterized by chemists at UC Davis, Virginia Tech and Emory and Henry College, Va. The unexpected discovery opens new possibilities for structures ...
New methods for screening nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 21, 2006 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a screening method to examine how newly made nanoparticles interact with human cells following exposure for various times and doses.
Developing Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a new storage system to hold large quantities of hydrogen fuel that may one day power cars in a more cost-effective and consumer-friendly way.
Understanding Potential Toxic Effects of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Various types of carbon-based nanomaterials, such as buckyballs and nanotubes, have shown promise as drug delivery tools and imaging agents, but reports of toxicity associated with some of these materials have raised questions ...
Buckyballs could deliver multi-drug therapy to tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 22, 2006 |
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In the ongoing search for better ways to target anticancer drugs to kill tumors without making people sick, researchers find that nanoparticles called buckyballs might be used to significantly boost the payload of drugs carried ...
Carbon fullerenes now have metallic cousins, 'hollow golden cages'
May 15, 2006 |
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Scientists have uncovered a class of gold atom clusters that are the first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes known as buckyballs. The evidence for what their discoverers ...
Buckyballs Can Be Nontoxic... Maybe
Jan 09, 2006 |
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Buckminsterfullerene, a form of carbon containing 60 atoms arranged like the facets of a soccer ball and one of the first and best studied nanoscale structures, has come under scrutiny in recent years over concerns ...
Duke Chemist's Lab Steady Source of 'Nanotube' Advances
Dec 20, 2005 |
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"Nanotubes" grown in the busy laboratory of associate chemistry professor Jie Liu were crucial to IBM scientists' recent announcements of a new source of light emissions. Liu's lab is also working with a California ...
Nano-Armor: Protecting the Soldiers of Tomorrow
Dec 10, 2005 |
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An Israeli company has recently tested one of the most shock-resistant materials known to man. Five times stronger than steel and at least twice as strong as any impact-resistant material currently in use ...
Computer simulation shows buckyballs deform DNA
Dec 06, 2005 |
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Soccer-ball-shaped "buckyballs" are the most famous players on the nanoscale field, presenting tantalizing prospects of revolutionizing medicine and the computer industry. Since their discovery in 1985, engineers ...
Nano-based antiradiation drug
Nov 29, 2005 |
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Balls of carbon atoms called buckyballs only a nanometer or billionth of a meter in diameter could serve as future antiradiation drugs to help protect against the side effects of cancer therapies or against dirty bombs, experts ...
Stengthening the glow of nanotube luminescence
Nov 15, 2005 |
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Nanotubes are the poster children of the nanotechnology revolution. These tiny carbon tubes – less than 1/50,000 the diameter of a human hair – possess novel properties that have researchers excitedly expl ...
