Recent market estimates towards the end of last year put the international market for graphene in the same range as the total invested in graphene producers. This doesn't make much sense - so are graphene producers completely wrong, or are the market estimates wildly inaccurate?
One of the most widely repeated predictions for nanotechnologies was its role in the creation of a trillion dollar industry by 2015. Were they right?
There has been major interest over the last 15 years in using various forms of nanomaterials as a replacement for ITO. The ideal material would be cheap, transparent and highly conductive - a combination which has so far eluded most developers.
By Tim Harper
19 Dec 2014
Researchers from Rice University have used microbullets to analyze graphene strength and feasibility in these applications.
By Stuart Milne
8 Dec 2014
Hyperspectral imaging accumulates and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum.
By Alexander Chilton
15 Oct 2014
In order to determine the properties of a material, detailed knowledge of the structures it contains at the atomic level is required. This information can be obtained using conventional X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods for ordinary materials.
Nanolithography is a field of nanotechnology which deals with the study and application of fabricating nanometer-scale structures. Since 2007, nanolithography has gained a high level of research interest from academia as well as from industry.
Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing science and a number of methods are now available for producing nanoparticles. However, some of these methods employ high energy requirements, low material conversions and the use of hazardous chemicals. Hence, there is a growing need to develop eco-friendly nanoparticle synthesis methods.
By Stuart Milne
19 Sep 2014
The production of a working quantum computer has become a real possibility, thanks to recent developments in the nanotechnology field, but there is still a long way to go.
By Alexander Chilton
17 Sep 2014
Nanowires have a number of exciting properties which are not exhibited by 3-D or bulk materials. This is due to the fact that electrons within the nanowires are quantum confined and have energy levels that differ from that of the bulk materials.