Abstract: Despite intensive research and numerous essays and reports, chemical and physical methods of producing fullerene structures of carbon modifications could heretofore only be carried out on a laboratory scale. The invention suggest a new family of nanomaterials, more specifically of carbon hybrids, namely nanostructured carbon fullerenes (NCF). Methods of production and methods of use thereof are being proposed and illustrated using numerous examples. The proposed NCF and their nanocompounds are very well suited for industrial production and in particular in highly technological applications.

Abstract: An adsorbent for whole blood in the form of essentially spherical non-aggregated particles. The adsorbent comprises a porous carrier material having an average pore size of ≦1.5 &mgr;m, whereby a maximum of 50% of the pore volume may be in pores having a pore size of >1.5 &mgr;m, whereby the outer surfaces of the porous carrier material have at least one surface modification M1 so that the outer surface essentially does not interact with blood cells, and the inner surfaces of the porous carrier material, e.g., the surfaces of the pores of the porous carrier material, have at least one surface modification M2 which interacts with substances present in blood.