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Gas, jewels and arteries

Gas, jewels and arteries RESEARCH NEWS Nanocoatings for arteries Isolated jewels Polyelectrolyte chitosan and hyaluronan. Naturally occurring hydrocarbon compounds that multilayers continue to Conveniently, these resemble diamonds in their chemical structure find new and useful coatings adhere better can be found in crude oil. These rare molecules, applications. They are to damaged rather called diamondoids, are networks of carbon and made from charged than healthy tissue. hydrogen atoms that are superimposable on the polymers using layer-by- When blood flows diamond lattice. The smallest possible layer electrostatic through the arteries, the diamondoid, adamantane (C H ), has a cage-like 10 16 assembly, and can be used presence of the coating carbon structure capped by hydrogen atoms, but to coat many surfaces, reduces platelet adhesion several other diamondoid families with increasing thereby changing the and clot formation on the structural complexities and varieties of molecular properties of the surface in damaged tissue. This is geometries have also been observed. The stability useful ways. As further important because it and structural variety of these rigid diamond-like demonstration of the lowers the chances of molecules make them attractive for catalytic and versatility of this approach restenosis (obstruction of nanoscale electronic applications, but it has to materials engineering, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Gas, jewels and arteries

Nature Materials , Volume 2 (7) – Jul 1, 2003
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Gas, jewels and arteries

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RESEARCH NEWS Nanocoatings for arteries Isolated jewels Polyelectrolyte chitosan and hyaluronan. Naturally occurring hydrocarbon compounds that multilayers continue to Conveniently, these resemble diamonds in their chemical structure find new and useful coatings adhere better can be found in crude oil. These rare molecules, applications. They are to damaged rather called diamondoids, are networks of carbon and made from charged than healthy tissue. hydrogen atoms that are superimposable on...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2003 by Nature Publishing Group
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Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
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1476-1122
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1476-4660
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10.1038/nmat938
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RESEARCH NEWS Nanocoatings for arteries Isolated jewels Polyelectrolyte chitosan and hyaluronan. Naturally occurring hydrocarbon compounds that multilayers continue to Conveniently, these resemble diamonds in their chemical structure find new and useful coatings adhere better can be found in crude oil. These rare molecules, applications. They are to damaged rather called diamondoids, are networks of carbon and made from charged than healthy tissue. hydrogen atoms that are superimposable on the polymers using layer-by- When blood flows diamond lattice. The smallest possible layer electrostatic through the arteries, the diamondoid, adamantane (C H ), has a cage-like 10 16 assembly, and can be used presence of the coating carbon structure capped by hydrogen atoms, but to coat many surfaces, reduces platelet adhesion several other diamondoid families with increasing thereby changing the and clot formation on the structural complexities and varieties of molecular properties of the surface in damaged tissue. This is geometries have also been observed. The stability useful ways. As further important because it and structural variety of these rigid diamond-like demonstration of the lowers the chances of molecules make them attractive for catalytic and versatility of this approach restenosis (obstruction of nanoscale electronic applications, but it has to materials engineering,

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Published: Jul 1, 2003

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