A Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from "fullerenes" -- soccer-ball-shaped, cage-like molecules composed of 60 carbon atoms. ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 31, 2010
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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 chemists remember ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 19, 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.
Bio & Medicine
Mar 5, 2009
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Astronomers at the University of Arizona have developed a theory to explain the presence of the largest molecules known to exist in interstellar gas.
Astronomy
Jul 19, 2022
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Organic molecules that capture photons and convert these into electricity have important applications for producing green energy. Light-harvesting complexes need two semiconductors, an electron donor and an acceptor. How ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 24, 2021
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Microscopically small cages have been produced at TU Wien (Vienna) with grid openings only a few micrometers in size, making them ideal for holding cells and allowing living tissue to grow in a very specific shape. This new ...
Biotechnology
May 4, 2020
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A decade ago, scientists noticed something very strange happening when buckyballs—soccer ball shaped carbon molecules—were dumped onto a certain type of multilayer graphene, a flat carbon nanomaterial. Rather than rolling ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 31, 2019
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A Dartmouth College scientist and his collaborators have created an artificial protein that organizes new materials at the nanoscale.
Nanomaterials
Apr 26, 2016
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Treated buckyballs not only remove valuable but potentially toxic metal particles from water and other liquids, but also reserve them for future use, according to scientists at Rice University.
Nanomaterials
Feb 9, 2015
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Researchers at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have reported the first experimental evidence that supports the theory that a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle commonly called a buckyball is the result of a breakdown ...
Materials Science
Sep 15, 2013
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