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Nanotechnology - Opportunities for Nanotechnology in the Aerospace and Automotive Industry

Nanotechnology is widely regarded as one of the most important sources of new technology over coming decades and will have applications across a broad range of industries. The automotive and aerospace industries are looking closely at adoption of nanostructured materials to provide new products.

24 Aug 2009

Nanomaterials - Chemical Indentification and Characterization of Nanomaterials

The first step in assessing the risks posed by nanotechnology is to chemically identify and characterize nanomaterials. Understanding the chemical properties as well as physical is essential in evaluating toxicological and ecological hazards and exposures.

23 Aug 2009

Nanotechnology - Advancing Environmental Protection by Addressing Long-Term Sustainability of Resources and Resource Systems

Nanotechnology allows the advancement of environmental protection by tackling long-term sustainability of resources and resource systems. This article describes the potential and actual nanotechnology applications relating to energy, materials and water.

22 Aug 2009

Nanotechnology - What are the Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology

This article will describe how nanotechnology can create materials and products that will not only directly advance our ability to monitor, detect and clean-up environmental contaminants, but also help us avoid creating pollution in the first place.

21 Aug 2009

Energy Producing Roads - The Solution To Carbon Emissions and Climate Change

Solar Roadways may hold the key to solving climate change and global warming. Solar Roadways are electric roads that produce their own electricity and would conserve fuel and reduce pollution.

20 Aug 2007

Carbon Emission Reduction and The Areas In Which Nanotechnology Can Positively Effect Climate Change and Global Warming

One of the most pressing environmental issues facing modern society is that of global warming and the reduction of greenhouse gases in the environment. Nanotechnology can be applied to a number of areas to assist in the battle to control and reverse climate change.

31 May 2007

Nanosensors: Definition, Applications and How They Work

This article looks at nanosensors, including a definition, applications and how chemical and mechanical nanosensors work.

6 Feb 2007

Top Down and Bottom Up Construction NanoFabrication Techniques Defined

Nanoscale fabrication techniques can generally be divided into either top down fabrication or bottom up fabrication

25 Jan 2007

Buckytubes and Carbon Nanotubes - A Nanotechnology Building Block, How To Make Them, History, Properties and Applications

Just as the key building block to life on earth is the carbon atom, carbon is the key to one of the most promising branches of nanotechnology. Much of the current research and commercialisation of nanotechnology relies on tubes, wires and balls made from carbon atoms.

8 Nov 2006

Liquid Crystalline Organic Semiconductor Forming Helical Structures - First Realization Of Hole Conduction In The Cholesteric Phase

Our research group has carried out investigation of the relationship between molecular structures and their physical properties, and the establishment of the guiding principle for molecular design to aim at the application of liquid crystalline organic semiconductors to practical opto-electronic dev

27 Oct 2006