G.P. Thomas

Gary graduated from the University of Manchester with a first-class honours degree in Geochemistry and a Masters in Earth Sciences. After working in the Australian mining industry, Gary decided to hang up his geology boots and turn his hand to writing.

When he isn't developing topical and informative content, Gary can usually be found playing his beloved guitar, or watching Aston Villa FC snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Articles from G.P.

Anticorrosion Protective Systems to Distribute Industrial Nanotech’s Nansulate Coatings in Malaysia

Anticorrosion Protective Systems has been selected as an exclusive Malaysian distributor for Industrial Nanotech’s patented Nansulate product portfolio of thermal insulation and protective coatings.

16 Aug 2012

MEMS Executive Congress 2012 to Focus on Advances in MEMS

MEMS Industry Group (MIG), an association comprising 150 companies dealing in MEMS technology, will host the MEMS Executive Congress 2012 that brings together leaders from diverse industries to interact and exchange ideas about commercialization of MEMS.

16 Aug 2012

New Technique for Creating Sharp Color Images at Nanoscale

Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) have devised a ground-breaking technique that utilizes metal-laced nano-scale structures to create sharp, full-spectrum color images at 100,000 dpi, without using dyes or inks.

14 Aug 2012

New Technique Paves Way to Optimize Graphene for Spintronic Applications

Ramesh Mani, an associate professor of physics at Georgia State University (GSU), and Walter de Heer, Regents' Professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), have developed a new technique to study the spin characteristics of electrons in graphene.

13 Aug 2012

New Concept to Explore Room-Temperature Multiferroics

A research team led by Dr. Noriki Terada from the Neutron Scattering Group of the Quantum Beam Unit at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Dr. Yoshihiro Tsujimoto from the NIMS International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) together with the University of Oxford and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has demonstrated that it is possible to largely control a magnetic material’s dielectric and magnetic properties by replacing nonmagnetic atoms with other atoms.

10 Aug 2012

Novel X-ray Imaging Technique Enhances Quality of Nanomaterial Images

A new imaging technique employing X-ray diffraction has been developed at the London Center of Nanotechnology that has led to the successful three-dimensional imaging of gold nanocrystals.

9 Aug 2012

New Technology to Engineer Enhanced Composite Nanofibers for Biomedical Use

Scientists at University of Pennsylvania have developed a new technology by which scaffolds of composite nanofibers are loose enough for cells to occupy them while still retaining the ability to guide the tissue growth.

9 Aug 2012

Qcept Technologies Bags Order for ChemetriQ 5000 NVD System for 2X-nm and 1X-nm Processes

Qcept Technologies, the company that provides non-visual defect (NVD) detection solutions in semiconductor manufacturing, has secured an order for its ChemetriQ 5000 non-visual defect (NVD) inspection system from a semiconductor manufacturer based in North America.

8 Aug 2012

Pixelligent in Expansion Mode Amidst Rising Demand for its Nanocrystal Additives

Pixelligent Technologies, a company that supplies nanocrystal additives to semiconductor, industrial and electronic manufacturers, has extended its Baltimore facility to be larger than 13,000 sq. ft. and has expanded its workforce by almost 150%.

3 Aug 2012

Ceres Ventures Set to Commercialize BluFlow Nanoparticle-Based Water Treatment Technology

Ceres Ventures, a company that deals with development of clean technologies for purification of water, soil and air, has announced that the company’s subsidiary, BluFlow Technologies has devised a proprietary technique to commercialize production of BluFlow nanoparticles and is in the process of acquiring a patent for its BluFlow water treatment technology that already has four patent filings to its name.

3 Aug 2012