News tagged with fullerene


International team tracks clues to HIV

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(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.





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String of Fullerene Pearls

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 30, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Under an atomic force microscope, the tiny structures look like fragments of nanoscopic pearl necklaces. In reality, the “pearls” are fullerene molecules that are linked together by means of a special fullerene-binding molecule. ...


Carbon molecule with a charge could be tomorrow's semiconductor

Chemistry /

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 0

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.


Remote-control closed system invented for inserting radio-active atoms inside fullerenes

Remote-control closed system invented for inserting radio-active atoms inside fullerenes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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 ...


Fullerenes Yield Stable, Powerful MR Imaging Agent

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 24, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Fullerenes, the soccer ball-shaped spheres of carbon that helped usher in the nanotechnology era, have been touted as versatile containers for delivering drugs and other clinically useful molecules to tumors. Turning promise ...


Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 26, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 0

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 ...


A Polymer Solar Cell with Near-Perfect Internal Efficiency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (42) | comments 13

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 ...


New Nanomaterial, 'NanoBuds,' Combines Fullerenes and Nanotubes

New Nanomaterial, 'NanoBuds,' Combines Fullerenes and Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (65) | comments 0

Researchers have created a hybrid carbon nanomaterial that merges single-walled carbon nanotubes and spherical carbon-atom cages called fullerenes. The new structures, dubbed NanoBuds because they resemble ...


Scientists Study How to Stack the Deck for Organic Solar Power

Scientists Study How to Stack the Deck for Organic Solar Power

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 6

(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 ...


New approach to science education proposed

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 24, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A world-renowned U.S. scientist says he is plotting a revolution -- a revolution in the way children around the world are taught science.


Special Coating Greatly Improves Solar Cell Performance

Chemistry /

created Feb 22, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 0

The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California’s Mojave Desert could power all of the United States’ electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, ...



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