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Growing Use of Nanotechnology Spurs Research into Nanomaterials and Nanoparticle Risks

Potential risks from the use of nanomaterials will be explored by three Arizona State University engineering faculty in a project supported by a $400,000 grant from the U.S.Department of Energy Office of Biological and E...

16 Jun 2008

Nanotube Reinforced Material Produces Denser Bone Tissue

In the first study of its kind, bioengineers and bioscientists at Rice University and Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, have shown they can grow denser bone tissue by sprinkling stick-like nanoparticles throug...

16 Jun 2008

New Plant for Large Scale Production of Solar Panels

Today the launch of Skypoint Solar, Inc. was announced, a large-scale, solar panel manufacturing company, whose business model includes the creation of solar power parks for utility-scale electricity generation. The Comp...

16 Jun 2008

First Nanograduates From High School Nanotechnology Program

Initiative developed jointly by the City School District of Albany and UAlbany NanoCollege is believed to be nation's first nanotechnology program at a public school

16 Jun 2008

Cleaning Up Heavy Metals Pollution With Nanotechnology

Cleaning up heavy metal contamination has become easier, safer, and nearly effortless since AC Environmental launched its environmentally responsible AC Nano product. Companies working with heavy metals often face the...

13 Jun 2008

NanoExplorers from High Schools to Sepend Their Summer Learning About Nanotechnology

The UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute was launched in September 2001 and in the years since then has inspired more than 80 young minds to spend their summers studying nanotechnology. This year alone there a...

13 Jun 2008

Lower Cost Carbon Nanotubes and a New Website for Cheap Tubes

Cheap Tubes announces new lower prices for their high quality, low cost CNTs as well as a new website

From Cheap Tubes Inc. 12 Jun 2008

Nanoglassblowing Creates Nanosized Fluidic Devices for Isolating and Studying Molecules

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have found beauty in a new fabrication technique called “nanoglassblowing” that creates nanoscale fluidic devices used to isolate and study single molecules in solution

12 Jun 2008

New Way of Bending X-Rays Could Lead to Better Telescopes and Computer Chips

Gratings used to manipulate X-rays for future space telescopes and other applications, like tiny miniaturized venetian blinds, were created using an interference lithography patterning tool, called the nanoruler.

12 Jun 2008

Fairfax County Middle School Science Selects MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids to Teach School Students About Nanotechnology

Bourne Research LLC today announced that Fairfax County Middle School Science has selected the award-winning book, MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids, to provide background knowledge on nanotechnology for their middle scho...

12 Jun 2008