Physicists and chemists from Denmark, Brazil and the United States proposed a new technique for the destruction of bacterial cells. Taking into account the opinion of experts, you can blow them up with the help of specialized nanoparticles.

The results of the research of the authors is available in the form of a Preprint in the directory arXiv.org and briefly with them can be found on the website of the New Scientist.

Scientists suggested to add in fullerenes (balibali) - special allotropic modifications of carbon - dioxide molecules of nitrogen. Being located on the surface of baibala, nitrogen dioxide peretyagivaet on some of the electrons from the outer shells of atoms of carbon, which guarantees the required explosion of the fullerene.

Being placed in a bacterial cell such nanoparticles for the billionth of a second is ready to warm up to temperatures of 4 thousand degrees Celsius and therefore to resolve the smallest organism. Molecule simple baibala, consisting of 60 carbon atoms, requires 12 molecules of nitrogen dioxide.

The fullerene molecule in a simple shape is a convex closed polyhedron composed of hexagons, the nodes of which are carbon atoms. Interest in fullerenes linked to their unusual optical and electrical properties.

Previously, experts managed to burn cancer cells using specialized carbon nanotubes. Now scientists can do it with the cells of microbes.
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