207th ECS Meeting - Quebec City, Canada

May 15 - May 20, 2005

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

P9 - Fullerene and Carbon Nanotube Based Materials in Medicine and Biology

Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures
 

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Room 304A/B, Level 3, Quebec City Convention Center

Co-Chairs: L. Wilson & B. Weisman
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
08:50 932 Self-assembled Amphiphilic Two-photon Absorptive Diphenylaminofluorene-C60 Vesicles for Delivery L. Chiang (University of Massachusetts Lowell), K. Pritzker (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Canada) and B. Wilson (Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
09:15 933 Fullerenes in Medicinal Chemistry T. Da Ros (Trieste University) and M. Prato (Universite di Trieste)
09:40 Intermission (20 Minutes)
10:00 934 In Vitro and In Vivo Studies of Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Metallofullerene MRI Contrast Agents H. Dorn, H. Gibson, Z. Ge (Virginia Tech), J. Duchamp, A. Leonard (Emory & Henry College), P. Fatouros, F. Corwin, J. Tatum, W. Broaddus and Z. Chen (Medical College of Virginia)
10:25 935 Large-scale Metallofullerene Manufacturing: A New Trimetasphere MRI Contrast Agent S. Wilson (Luna nanoWorks)
10:50 936 Iodine-filled Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes as Computerized Tomography (CT) Contrast Agents K. Kissell, K. Hartman (Rice University), P. Van der Heide (University of Houston) and L. Wilson (Rice University)
11:15 937 Gd3+@US-tubes: Ultra-Short Carbon Nanotube Capsules as MRI Contrast Agents K. Hartman, B. Sitharaman, K. Kissell and L. Wilson (Rice University)
 
Co-Chairs: T. Da Ros & L. Wilson
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00 938 In Vitro and In Vivo Detection of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes through Near-IR Fluorescence R. Weisman, P. Cherukuri, C. Redden, S. Swartz and K. Beckingham (Rice University)
14:25 939 In Vitro Studies of Vascular Cell Types Exposed to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes P. Cherukuri, K. Hartman, K. Kissell, J. Hudson, L. Wilson, J. Tour, R. Weisman (Rice University) and J. Conyers (Univ. of Texas Health Science Center)
14:50 940 [60]Fullerene Has no Acute or Sub-acute Toxicity F. Moussa (CNRS UMR8612)
15:15 941 Synthesis and Catalysis of Polyaniline Nanotubes: High Temperature Conversion to Carbon Nanotubes K. Santhanam and S. Paquette (Rochester Institute of Technology)