Elsevier Carbon #163 cover illustration
"The bio-chemically selective interaction of hydrogenated and oxidized ultra-small nanodiamonds with proteins and cells
Nanodiamonds (2 nm) with different surface termination (hydrogenated - blue and oxidized - orange) control the formation of different corona proteins. Background consists of a scanning electron microscopy image of cells incubated with such nanodiamond-corona complexes."
It illustrates the discovery of properties of certain nanodiamonds — as tiny as 2 nm — with hydrogen and oxygen on the surface, which have the ability of bonding to different proteins and their protein coronas by scientists from Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR, IOCB Prague - Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, ČVUT FEL / Czech Technical University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, Charles University in Prague Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague / Univerzita Karlova.
Carbon, vol 163, 2020,
Publisher: Elsevier
art direction / postproduction: Jan Škuta / Škuta Design
CGI / Rhinoceros / research: Ondřej Michálek / COLL COLL
client: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
March 2020 / published in August 2020
