Search results for buckyballs
'Buckyballs' have high potential to accumulate in living tissue
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break down in sunlight, perhaps ...
Buckyballs could keep water systems flowing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Microscopic particles of carbon known as buckyballs may be able to keep the nation's water pipes clear in the same way clot-busting drugs prevent arteries from clogging up.
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 ...
How buckyballs hurt cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 27, 2008 |
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A new study into the potential health hazards of the revolutionary nano-sized particles known as ‘buckyballs’ predicts that the molecules are easily absorbed into animal cells, providing a possible explanation for how the ...
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 ...
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.
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.
'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 ...
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.
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 ...
Nanophysics: Serving up Buckyballs on a silver platter
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Scientists at Penn State University, in collaboration with institutes in the US, Finland, Germany and the UK, have figured out the long-sought structure of a layer of C60 - carbon buckyballs - on a silver ...
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.
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 ...
Buckyball aggregates are soluble, antibacterial
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Research offers clues about C60 behavior in natural environments In some of the first research to probe how buckyballs will interact with natural ecosystems, Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnol ...
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 ...
