Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacological Potential of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes (Carbon Materials: Chemistry and Physics)

Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacological Potential of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes (Carbon Materials: Chemistry and Physics)

Fullerenes and nanotubes are two classes of carbon structures or allotropes, which were discovered about 17 years ago. Since that time, many chemical derivatives have been synthesized using fullerenes and nanotubes as building blocks.

Particularly promising was the theory that the chemical properties of fullerenes, and certain derivatives, made them likely candidates for anticancer drugs, inhibitors of viruses such as HIV, or even as anti-bacterials. Their cyctotoxicity can also be controlled by specific circumstances.

In addition, the funtionalization of nanotubes has not only produced relatively simple derivatives, but also complex hybrids with biological macromolecules, which show unique supramolecular architecture and which are promising in many medical applications.

The application of fullerenes and nanotubes in medicine is at the frontier of our knowledge, thus the work in this field represents the basis for future novel developments.

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Solid State Physics of Finite Systems: Metal Clusters, Fullerenes, Atomic Wires

Solid State Physics of Finite Systems: Metal Clusters, Fullerenes, Atomic Wires

This book surveys the physics of the quantum, finite many-body systems that are the basis of nanostructures such as fullerenes and metal clusters. The ab-initio techniques for describing the single-particle motion (electrons) and the collective degrees of freedom (plasmons and phonons) and their interaction are discussed in detail and applied to the study of phenomena such as the electromagnetic response and superconductivity of these systems. Built around current research and drawing upon lectures given to advanced undergraduates, the book will interest students, young researchers and practitioners in the fields of solid-state and atomic physics and physical chemistry.

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This book surveys the physics of the quantum, finite many-body systems that are the basis of nanostructures such as fullerenes and metal clusters. The ab-initio techniques for describing the single-particle motion (electrons) and the collective degrees of freedom (plasmons and phonons) and their interaction are discussed in detail and applied to the study of phenomena such as the electromagnetic response and superconductivity of these systems. Built around current research and drawing upon lectures given to advanced undergraduates, the book will interest students, young researchers and practitioners in the fields of solid-state and atomic physics and physical chemistry.

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Carbon Materials And Technological Advances

Carbon, one of the most abundant element in nature, has the capability to be combined chemically with itself and with other elements by strong covalent bonds resulting in a variety of structures that enable the development of resources of Different properties. The carbon materials can be very solid as diamond or graphite as easily delaminated, very dense, high strength (composite materials carbon / carbon), and therefore appropriate for structural applications (aircraft and racing cars), or very porous (activated carbon); the latter being useful as adsorbents for energy storage or as a support for catalysts. They can be Extremely conductive (graphite) or insulating (vitreous carbon). This broad spectrum of properties is reinforced by the fact that only carbon resources are capable of operating at extreme temperatures in the most extreme conditions.

The carbon materials have been gathered much attention with the discovery of fullerenes and nanotubes. However, traditional carbon supplies have played an principal role since prehistoric period (pigment in cave paintings, a component of gunpowder, writing) and have contributed to the manufacturing and technological development of our society (steel).

The discovery of carbon fibers in the ’60s, with its eminent strength and flexibility, was a major achievement in the development of these materials. In parallel, we discover the vitreous carbon, named after filing a conchoidal fracture surface, with properties analogous to glass, very solid and brittle. At the same time, the discovery of brand new structural forms of graphitic carbon, needle and spherules, ostensibly contributed to the development of new carbon Materials for very diverse applications.

The outstanding biocompatibility of carbon materials, revealed in the 70s, its service in prostheses, ligaments and heart valves, among others.

In the early ’80s, the development of machinery for producing blocks of high-level density isotropic graphite allowed its application in high temperature reactors, in devices of synthesis of semiconductor crystals and to components of electric discharge electrodes. At mid-80s,  the introduction of carbon fibers in civil engineering, architectural systems (buildings, bridges) with the discovery of fullerenes.

In the 90s, was discovered nanotubes, opening a modern era for carbon supplies: The era of the nanostructure. It is not just the world of carbon graphite flat structures or three-dimensional type diamond, but we are now with closed structures containing pentagons of carbon atoms and carbon tubes with diameters in the nanometer scale, made of a sheet plain curved carbon atoms in hexagonal distribution. The discovery of carbon nanotubes of a single wall (single) and multiple wall, stimulated the fascination of scientists and engineers in fields associated to nanotechnology. At the same time, new applications of the materials of the family of graphite, such as anode materials for Li-ion battery rechargeable carbon fiber water refining, activated carbon electrodes for electric double layer supercapacitors, etc. .

More recently, in 2004, was developed the isolating graphene, a flat sheet structure of an atom thick. Its exceptional electrical properties have revolutionized the field of science, finding application in electronics (ultra-fast computers, replacing the silicon), in the imminent construction of space elevators, individual protection systems (body armor) in the field of security etc.. In July 2008, researchers at Columbia University confirmed that this is the strongest material so far identified.

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