Search results for fullerene
Where do nanomaterials go in the body?
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Tiny, engineered nanomaterials can already be found in many consumer products, and have been hailed as having widespread future uses in areas ranging from medicine to industrial processes. However, little is known about what ...
Carbon nanoballs as data storage units
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at ...
Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 04, 2009 |
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University of Washington researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electrical current is carried by tiny bubbles and channels that form inside nanoscale solar cells, paving the way for development ...
Scientists Study How to Stack the Deck for Organic Solar Power
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of economically viable solar power cells--cheap, flexible and easy to make--has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards ...
Remote-control closed system invented for inserting radio-active atoms inside fullerenes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry C. Dorn, Emory and Henry College chemistry Professor James Duchamp, and Panos Fatouros, professor and chair of the Division of Radiation Physics and Biology at the Virginia ...
A Polymer Solar Cell with Near-Perfect Internal Efficiency
Jun 17, 2009 |
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An international group of scientists has developed a polymer-based solar cell with an ability not yet seen in similar cells: almost every single photon it absorbs is converted into a pair of electric-charge carriers, and ...
International team tracks clues to HIV
May 19, 2009 |
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Rice University's Andrew Barron and his group, working with labs in Italy, Germany and Greece, have identified specific molecules that could block the means by which the deadly virus spreads by taking away its ability to ...
Synthesis with a template: Carbon-free fullerene analogue
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Manfred Scheer at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue.
'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 19, 2009 |
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If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive "geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel Aviv University ...
Nanoparticles trigger cell death?
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Nanoparticles that are one milliard of a metre in size are widely used, for example, in cosmetics and food packaging materials. There are also significant amounts of nanoparticles in exhaust emissions. However, very little ...
Carbon molecule with a charge could be tomorrow's semiconductor
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications.
Researchers synthesize molecule with self-control
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 12, 2008 |
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Plants have an ambivalent relationship with light. They need it to live, but too much light leads to the increased production of high-energy chemical intermediates that can injure or kill the plant.
Environmental fate of nanoparticles depends on properties of water carrying them
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 02, 2008 |
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The fate of carbon-based nanoparticles spilled into groundwater – and the ability of municipal filtration systems to remove the nanoparticles from drinking water – depend on subtle differences in the solution ...
Researchers explain how birds navigate
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Apr 30, 2008 |
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It has long been known that birds and many other animals including turtles, salamanders and lobsters, use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, but the nature of their global positioning systems (GPS) has ...
Researchers Make Breakthrough in Nanotechnology by Uncovering Conductive Property of Carbon-based Molecules
Apr 17, 2008 |
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University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain circumstances and, in turn, conduct electricity as well as metal. Detailed ...
