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Carbon Nanotubes New Make BASF Plastic Conductive

As a first, BASF
is launching a plastic containing carbon nanotubes (CNT) onto the market.

From BASF 26 Mar 2009

Carbon Nanotubes Significantly Improve Overall Toughness and Durability of Composites

New research finding could lead to more durable aircraft, automotive components.A new research discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could lead to tougher, more durable composite frames for aircraft, watercraft, and automobiles.

26 Mar 2009

Market for Graphene to Reach $59 Million in 2015

The price and performance advantages of graphene -- ultra-thin sheets of carbon atoms -- over incumbent carbon-based nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, have made the material a hot topic in nanotech circles. These ...

26 Mar 2009

Researchers Have Produced a Strongly Hydrophobic Nanodiamond Material

Vadym Mochalin, Senior Researcher, and Yury Gogotsi, Trustee Chair Professor of Materials Science + Engineering at Drexel University, have produced a strongly hydrophobic nanodiamond material that shows bright blue fluorescence, just as macroscopic diamonds do.

25 Mar 2009

Applying Advances in Nanotechnology to the Treatment of Human Diseases

Funding from the Missouri Life Sciences Research Fund, part of the 1998 state tobacco settlement, will establish the St. Louis Institute of Nanomedicine Working Group, a collaborative regional effort to apply advances in...

25 Mar 2009

Computer Simulations to Quantify the Effect of Heating Nanoparticles with Lasers to Kill Cancer Tumors

Two lasers may be better than one when attacking cancer cells, according to a paper by Rice University scientists. Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Rice's H.S. Cameron Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an authorit...

25 Mar 2009

Using Nanotechnology, Brookhaven Lab Scientists Patent Corrosion-Resistant Coating for Metals

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles - particles measuring billionths of a meter - which renders the metal resistant to corrosion and eliminates the use of toxic chromium for this purpose.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 25 Mar 2009

Cheap Solar Cells Can Become a Reality Through R+D in Organic Electronics

Flexible display screens and cheap solar cells can become a reality through research and development in organic electronics. Physicists at Umeå University in Sweden have now developed a new and simple method for producing cheap electronic components.

25 Mar 2009

PANalytical Reinforces its Reputation for Complete Solutions at ACHEMA

Leading analytical X-ray company PANalytical (Almelo, the Netherlands) will reinforce its reputation for complete solutions at this year’s ACHEMA conference and exhibition (11 - 15 May 2009; Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

25 Mar 2009

Technique Holds Promise for Mass-Produced Nanoparticles

Now, at an extremely small level, researchers from Duke University and the University of Massachusetts have created a unique set of conditions in which tiny particles within a solution will consistently assemble themselves into these and other complex shapes.

24 Mar 2009