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Recession's Ripple Effect on Nanotechnology

All boats fall in an ebbing tide, and nanotech's ship is no different. As the economic downturn drains demand in several nano-enabled product market segments, it is eroding growth along the entire value chain, from n...

24 Jun 2009

Research Opens Up New Experimental Territory

University of Chicago researchers recently showed that dry granular materials such as sands, seeds and grains have properties similar to liquid, forming water-like droplets when poured from a given source.

24 Jun 2009

MIT Scientist Taking Composites to the Nanoscale

Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found in any of the original compounds, can emerge.

24 Jun 2009

Nano Salt Particles Stretching Like Taffy

Researchers in New Mexico are reporting the surprise discovery that common table salt - so brittle that it crushes easily between a thumb and forefinger - becomes a super plastic in the weird environs of the nanoworld.

24 Jun 2009

Scientists Create Salt Block that can Physically Stretch

To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh were startled when they found they had made the solid actually physically stretch.

From Sandia National Laboratories 24 Jun 2009

Altair Nanotechnologies Chief Applications Engineer Elected to Electricity Storage Association Board of Directors

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Altairnano) (Nasdaq: ALTI), a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, announces that its chief applications engineer for grid stabilizati...

From Altair Nanotechnologies 24 Jun 2009

Brookhaven Scientist Elected the Inaugural Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America

Yimei Zhu, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected the inaugural Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA), an affiliate of the American Institute of Physics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 24 Jun 2009

NWO Announces Winners of NWO/Spinoza Prize for 2009

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has announced the winners of the NWO/Spinoza Prize for 2009. Two of the three laureates of this year's Prize are Springer authors, Marten Scheffer and Albert...

24 Jun 2009

Enable IPC Subsidiary Hosts Leadership Wisconsin Seminar Participants

Enable IPC (Other OTC: EIPC) today announced the Company's subsidiary SolRayo recently hosted participants of a Leadership Wisconsin technology seminar. Leadership Wisconsin is a nonprofit group that focuses on devel...

24 Jun 2009

Nanotechnology Expert Awarded Prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize

For Professor Chad Mirkin, good things come in small packages - specifically one billionth of a meter in size. Yet, as director of Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology, the impact of Mirkin's work is anything but small.

24 Jun 2009