211th ECS Meeting - Chicago, Illinois

May 06 - May 10, 2007

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

H8 - Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Medicine and Biology

Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures/Nanotechnology
 

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Stevens 4, Northwest Hall, Lower Level

Co-Chairs: L. Wilson
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
16:20 1117 Water-Soluble C60 Polymer with Active Oxygen Generation and DNA-Cleaving Activity Y. Yamakoshi (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Y. Iwamoto (University of California at Santa Barbara)
16:45 1118 Gd3+@US-tube(Dex): Dextran-Coated Gadonanotubes as Water-soluble and Biocompatible High-Performance MRI Contrast Agents J. S. Ananta and L. Wilson (Rice University)
17:10 1119 Comparative In vivo Toxicity Assessment of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Mice F. Moussa (Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris-Sud 11), K. B. Hartman (Rice University), J. Kolosnjaj, N. Gharbi (Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris-Sud 11), S. Boudjemaa (Hôpital A Trousseau, AP-HP, Paris) and L. Wilson (Rice University)
17:35 1120 211AtCl@US-tube Nanocapsules: A New Concept in Radiotherapeutic Agent Design K. B. Hartman and L. Wilson (Rice University)
18:00 1121 In vivo near-IR Fluorescence Studies of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Pharmacokinetics and Imaging R. Weisman, P. Cherukuri, T. Leeuw, R. Reith, M. Harden, R. Simonette, D. Tsyboulski, K. Beckingham (Rice University), C. Gannon and S. Curley (University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
 

Southwest Hall, Lower Level

Tuesday Evening Poster Session

Co-Chairs: F. D'Souza and D. M. Guldi
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
o 1122 Antioxidant Activity of Fullerene Derivative Lacking Prooxidant Activity S. Nakamura, E. Satake, M. Hatanaka, K. Takahashi and T. Mashino (Kyoritsu University of Pharmacy)
o 1123 Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species by Antiproliferative Fullerene Derivative C. Nishizawa, N. Hashimoto, K. Takahashi, S. Nakamura and T. Mashino (Kyoritsu university of pharmacy)
o 1124 Low Impedance Electrodes for Biological Applications Using Carbon Nanotubes S. Minnikanti and N. Peixoto (George Mason University)
 

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Stevens 4, Northwest Hall, Lower Level

Co-Chairs: L. Chiang
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
08:00 1125 Optical Modulation of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Photoluminescence: Fundamentals and Biomedical Applications M. S. Strano, D. Heller and H. Jin (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign)
08:25 1126 Carbon Nanostructure-Reinforced Nanocomposites for Bone Tissue Engineering B. Sitharaman, X. Shi, L. Wilson and A. Mikos (Rice University)
08:50 1127 Commercial Development of Trimetasphere Metallofullerene MRI Contrast Agents S. R. Wilson, D. MacFarland, Z. Zhou, J. Zhang and R. Shukla (Luna nanoWorks)
09:15 1128 Understanding Paramagnetic Relaxation Phenomena for Water-Soluble Gadofullerenes R. Bolskar (TDA Research Inc.), S. Laus (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), B. Sitharaman (Rice University), &. Tóth (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS), L. Helm (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), L. Wilson (Rice University) and A. Merbach (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)