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Nanotechnology Director Delivers Visionary Presentation on the Future Impact of Nanotechnology on Energy, Lighting, Transportion, Meta Materials, Carbon Nanotubes plus Health and Safety

Dr. Clayton Teague, the director of the US National Nanotechnology Inititive was warmly welcomed to the ICONN2008 event in Melbourne Australia where he delivered the plenary lecture outlining the current and future state of play for nanotechnology

26 Feb 2008

Green Nanotech Investments Making Good Financial Returns for Investors

Saving the planet is a hot topic, especially when the planet is warming and oil is percolating around $100 a barrel. And that means greener nanotechnology applications, such as ultracapacitors, lithium titanate batteries...

23 Jan 2008

Carbon Nanotube Forests Connect Computer Chips to Heat Sinks

Engineers have shown how to grow forests of tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes onto the surfaces of computer chips to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where the chips connect to cooling devices called hea...

2 Oct 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Have Room for Multifunctionality

In the quest to turn carbon nanotubes from nanoscale wonder into clinically useful drug and imaging agent delivery agents, researchers have often added polymer coatings to the outside of the nanotubes in order to render ...

28 Sep 2007

Nanofibres Align in Stirred Liquid to Change Optical Properties

Is the vortex in a stirred liquid swirling clockwise or counterclockwise? A zinc porphyrin dendrimer - a branched molecule with a central zinc atom - can answer this question. As Japanese researchers report in the journa...

25 Sep 2007

Leaching Problem In Microsphere Cancer Treatment Solved

Oncologix Tech Inc. announced today that it has qualified a new design of its Oncosphere product in response to the "leaching" problem found in its previous design. The improved design was developed and qualifi...

23 Aug 2007

Dendrimer Based Chip For Photonic Devices Featured at nanoTX’07

The award winning nanophotonic integrated circuit (nPIC) of Applied Research & Photonics (ARP) will be a highlight during International Nanotechnology Week, a presentation of the Semiconductor Industry Association.&n...

22 Aug 2007

Starpharma’s DNT To Develop Water Purification Technology Under US Defense Dept Contract

Starpharma today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Dendritic Nanotechnologies Inc (DNT) will develop its proprietary technology to purify water following the award of a contract with the US Department of Defense...

From Starpharma Holdings Ltd 9 Aug 2007

Third-Order Nanotechnologies Develops Innovative Manufacturing Process

Third-Order Nanotechnologies, Inc. announced that it has developed an innovative process for manufacturing its electro-optic polymers. The process reduces the manufacturing process from five synthesis operations to two. ...

26 Jul 2007

Targeting and Imaging Cancer Cells With Multifunctional Nanoparticle Platforms

There has been much recent interest in how nanotechnology will impact the field of medicine. Unfortunately, a number of promising nanostructured systems have turned out to be extremely toxic to humans, thus precluding th...

22 Jun 2007