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Carbon Nanotubes Improves Electrical Stimulation of Nerves

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have designed a way to improve electrical stimulation of nerves by outfitting electrodes with the latest in chemically engineered fashion: a coating of basic black, formed from carbon nanotubes.

16 Sep 2008

New Nanotube Composite Material Lead to New Frontier in Nanotechnology

Jonghwan Suhr, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, recently published his research findings on Continuous Reinforced Carbon Nanotube Composites in Nano Letters, a prominent academic journal in the field of Nanotechnology.

16 Sep 2008

Experiment Verify Calculation on Ideal Strength of Graphene

In 2007, Prof. Ming Pingbing from the CAS Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and his colleagues made a calculation on the ideal strength of graphene, a promising carbon material. One year later, their work is ver...

16 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology Could be the Answer to Ensuring Safe Supply of Drinking Water

Nanotechnology could be the answer to ensuring a safe supply of drinking water for regions of the world stricken by periodic drought or where water contamination is rife. Writing in the International Journal of Nuclear D...

16 Sep 2008

Nano-C Issued Patents Covering Manufacture of Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes

Nano-C, Inc., leading developer of nanostructured carbon materials, today announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent Nos. 7,335,344 and 7,396,520 by the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademar...

15 Sep 2008

El-Mul Selects Black Magic Plasma CVD System to Produce Carbon Nanotube-Based Electron Sources

El-Mul Technologies' E-Beam On-a- Chip(TM) platform, which demands precision placement and step repeatability of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), will be produced using AIXTRON's Black Magic system, a ...

15 Sep 2008

Grants Support R+D in Fabrication of Micro/Nanoscale Sensors, Actuators and Devices

A team from Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project, "MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching System for Nano/Micro Device Fabr...

12 Sep 2008

Exciting Advances in the Ability to Work at the Atomic Level to be Unveiled at nanotxUSA'08

Among the more dramatic tools to be demonstrated during International Nanotechnology Week at the Hyatt Regency Dallas convention hotel October 2-3 is by InsituTec Inc, a Nano-Tool company commercializing an innovative pl...

9 Sep 2008

Thinking Big at the Small Scale

The dedication ceremony, which takes place at 11:30 a.m., celebrates the completion of an $18 million, state-funded expansion of one of the nation's premier and largest research laboratories in academia for micro and nanoelectronics, nanophotonics and optoelectronics, nanomedicine and bionanotechnology, and MEMS/NEMS and integrated systems research. The expansion added new lab, research, classroom and meeting space.

6 Sep 2008

Novel Drug Delivery Systems to Treat Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Based on Carbon Nanotubes

Of the more than 1.5 million people who suffer a traumatic brain injury each year in the United States, as many as 75 percent sustain a concussion, a brain injury that is classified as mild yet can lead to long-term or p...

23 Aug 2008