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Carbon nanostructures -- elixir or poison?

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 ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Engineers: Weak laser can ignite nanoparticles, with exciting possibilities

University of Florida engineering researchers have found they can ignite certain nanoparticles using a low-power laser, a development they say opens the door to a wave of new technologies in health care, computing and automotive ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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

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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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

A Polymer Solar Cell with Near-Perfect Internal Efficiency

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 ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (43) | comments 13 feature

International team tracks clues to HIV

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 ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Synthesis with a template: Carbon-free fullerene analogue

(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.

Chemistry / Materials Science

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


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