A one-handed 310 -helical hexapeptide is efficiently encapsulated within the helical cavity of st-PMMA when a fullerene (C60 ) derivative is introduced at the C-terminal end of the peptide. The encapsulation is accompanied by induction of a preferred-handed helical conformation in the st-PMMA backbone with the same-handedness as that of the hexapeptide to form a crystalline st-PMMA/peptide-C60 ...

We report a first-principle study of the tunable hydrogenation of endohedral metallofullerenes M@C60 and M2@C60, where M ) Li, Be, Mg, Ca, Al, and Sc. The interaction between the encapsulated metal atoms and the C60 cage leads to a tuning of the hydrogen binding in a desired manner as the hydrogenation proceeds. At lower H densities, when H atoms are too strongly bound to pure C60, the endohedr...

Background & Objective: The potent antioxidant property of fullerene C60 nanoparticles and their derivatives has been demonstrated in a wide range of in vitro and in vivo studies. Hence, we examined the effects of fullerene C60 on the oxidative stress parameters at brain and liver of rats in normal situation. Materials & Methods: The study was performed in two groups of Wistar rats (each group...

Nano-scale particles have attracted a lot of attention for its potential use in medical studies, in particular for the diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. However, the toxicity and other side effects caused by the undesired interaction between nanoparticles and DNA/RNA are not clear. To address this problem, a model to evaluate the general rules governing how nanoparticles interact with DNA/RN...

Photoinduced charge separation of fullerodendrimers with carboxylates at terminal sites (C60 approximately COO-) has been found in aqueous media. Time-resolved transient absorption and fluorescence measurements of the fullerodendrimers demonstrated that charge separation takes place from the terminal carboxylate anion to the central excited singlet state of C60, generating C60*- approximately C...

Recently, it has been demonstrated that oxygen free radicals have an important role as a signaling messenger in the development of inflammation and osteoclastogenesis, suggesting the implication of oxygen free radicals in the pathogenesis of arthritis. The aim of this study was to examine the potential of a strong free-radical scavenger, water-soluble fullerene (C60), as a protective agent agai...

A “stage-1” intercalated film has been made by the ion exchange of pyrrolidinium-functionalized C60 (C60(Py)n+) into centimeter-wide, micrometer-thick air-dried graphene oxide (G-O) films composed tens thousands layers stacked/overlapping G-O platelets, denoted [C60(Py)n+]G-O films. Spontaneous intercalation one layer C60(Py)n+ between adjacent expands interlayer spacing from 0.74 nm to 1.46 nm...

Given the unique structural and electronic properties of C60 , metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) containing C60 linkers are expected to exhibit interesting characteristics. A new hexakisfullerene derivative possessing two pairs of phenyl pyridine groups attached to two methano-carbon atoms located at the trans-1 positions was designed and synthesized. The four pyridyl nitrogen atoms define a perf...

Perovskite semiconductors are an attractive option to overcome the limitations of established silicon based photovoltaic (PV) technologies due their exceptional opto-electronic properties and successful integration into multijunction cells. However, performance single- cells is largely limited by significant nonradiative recombination at perovskite/organic electron transport layer junctions. In...

New representative of carbacylamidophosphates - diphenyl-N-(trichloroacetyl)-amidophosphate (HL), which contains two phenoxy substituents near the phosphoryl group, was synthesized, identified by elemental analysis and IR and NMR spectroscopy, and tested as a cytotoxic agent itself and in combination with C60 fullerene.According to molecular simulation results, C60 fullerene and HL could intera...