Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

...tion for a soccer ball-shaped nano-particle called buckyball has been identified. A research team has found that buckyball has the ability to block allergic reaction, making...researchers found that the unique structure of the buckyball allows it to attach to free radicals noticeably be...

Buckyballs Used as 'Passkey' into Cancer Cells

... Scientists at Rice University and pediatric specialists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered// a new way to use Rice's famed buckyball nanoparticles as passkeys that allows drugs to enter cancer cells. The research appears in the Jan. 21 issue of the journal Organic and Biomole...

Buckyball in Biological News

Rice's James Tour wins Feynman Prize

...f nanotechnology. Tour was one of four nominees for the prize, specifically for his work on the synthesis of nanocars, molecule-sized vehicles with buckyball wheels that served as an experiment to explore the possibility of building working machines at such a scale. The prize, first awarded in 1993, is ...

'Buckyballs' have high potential to accumulate in living tissue

...ckminster Fuller, who designed the geodesic dome, buckminsterfullerenes, or buckyballs, are soccer-ball-shaped molecules containing 60 carbon atoms. A buckyball has a width of about 1 nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter, which is roughly 10 atoms wide. The researchers determined precisely how soluble the...

Manufactured Buckyballs don't harm microbes that clean the environment

...chers. In the first published study to examine buckyball toxicity on microbes that break down organic subst...er, can be toxic, the microbes' resiliency to high buckyball levels was an important finding, the Purdue invest...nction, Nies said. The scientists added varying buckyball concentrations to wastewater sludge to determine i...

Tiny buckyballs squeeze hydrogen like giant Jupiter

...ethod of precisely calculating how much hydrogen a buckyball can hold before breaking. Buckyballs, which wer...ily includes carbon nanotubes, the typical 60-atom buckyball and larger buckyballs composed of 2,000 or more at... has tracked the strength of each atomic bond in a buckyball and simulated what happened to the bonds as more h...

Researchers develop buckyballs to fight allergy

...ed a new biological function for a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle called a buckyball – the ability to block allergic response, setting the stage for the develop...ergic response. The researchers found that the unique structure of the buckyball enables it to bind to free radicals dramatically better than any anti-oxida...

Buckyballs used as 'passkey' into cancer cells

... Scientists at Rice University and pediatric specialists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a new way to use Rice's famed buckyball nanoparticles as passkeys that allows drugs to enter cancer cells. The research appears in the Jan. 21 issue of the journal Organic and Biomolecular...

Buckyballs boost antibody's chemotherapy payload

...s, and work at Rice has shown that Taxol can be chemically attached to a buckyball. "The idea that we can potentially carry more than one Taxol per buckyball is exciting, but the real advantage of fullerene immunotherapy over other targeted therapeutic agents is likely to be the buckyball's potential to car...

Self-assembled DNA buckyballs for drug delivery

...ally around 7 nm in diameter.) About 70 percent of the volume of the DNA buckyball is hollow, and the open spaces in the structure allow water to enter. Dan L...ls were an intriguing and serendipitous surprise. A model suggests that one buckyball consists of about 19,000 amphiphiles, with their water-loving DNA mostly on...

Chemists create 'Superbowl' molecule; May lead to better health

...soccer-ball shaped molecules also known as fullerenes (C60), which also show promise for drug delivery and other useful applications. Whereas a single buckyball is designed to hold either a single atom or a hydrogen molecule, a superbowl molecule can hold large molecules of up to a hundred atoms, particularly ...

Buckyball in Biological Technology

Citrate appears to control buckyball clumping but environmental concerns remain

Blacksburg, Va. -- Fullerenes, also fondly known as buckyballs, are showing an ugly side. Since being discovered in 1985, the hollow carbon atoms have been adapted for nanotechnology and biomedical applications ranging from electronics to carriers of imaging materials. It appears that the hydr...

Rice rolls out new nanocars

...s science and computer science. Tour's original single-molecule car had buckyball wheels and flexible axles, and it served as a proof-of-concept for the manu...hese were easier to synthesize and permitted the motor to move, because the buckyball wheels trapped the light energy that served as fuel before the motor could ...

How buckyballs hurt cells

...es of WestGrid, a partnership between 14 Western Canadian institutions, to run some of the cell behaviour simulations. The resulting model showed that buckyball particles are able to dissolve in cell membranes, pass into cells and re-form particles on the other side where they can cause damage to cells. Sph...