Metal ions that dissolve from metal and metal oxide nanoparticles have been shown to be toxic 9, and the toxicity of fullerenes has been attributed to chemical residues that remain on their ...

Recent research has focused on the use of various types of nanoparticles, including fullerenes and metallofullerenes, which have shown promise in inhibiting tumor growth and modulating oxidative ...

Examples include processes in flame-, plasma-, laser- and hot wall reactors, yielding products such as fullerenes and carbon nanotubes: – In flame reactors, nanoparticles are formed by the ...

C60 fullerene can store highly reactive and unstable elements such as lithium to produce more powerful, long-lasting batteries. Gold nanoparticles suspended in solution can appear from red to blue.

Gold buckyball fullerenes each contain a hollow inner core of 12 gold atoms (left) and a 20-atom gold outer core (center). Attached organic ligands (right) stabilize the structure.

This encapsulation of metals by fullerene cages is not a chelation in a coordinative, dative-bonding sense - the metal ion is simply entrapped in the otherwise hollow interior space of the closed ...

David Cox (Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Annandale, N.J.): "Upon learning of the Kratschmer and Huffman technique (Nature, 347:354, 1990) for producing fullerenes in September 1990, we quickly ...