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Carbon Nanotubes Having Potential to Transport Electricity Faster and Over Greater Distances

Microscopic carbon nanotubes 100,000 times thinner than a human hair may have the potential to transport electricity faster and over greater distances with minimal loss of energy, according to new research that will be p...

1 Oct 2009

Micro Bubble to Demonstrate for First Time M-Fuel and CNT Battery

Micro Bubble Technologies Inc. ("MBT"), a "green" nanotechnology company, focused on improving alternative energy solutions through the development and marketing of their nanotechnology-based energy p...

30 Sep 2009

Cheap Tubes Introduces Single Layer Graphene Oxide in Powder and Dispersed Forms

Cheap Tubes Inc supplies Single Layer Graphene Oxide (SLGO) in both powder + dispersed forms. Our SLGO has no contaminants, an average flake thickness of 0.7-1.2nm, uses no metal catalyst, is Di Water and DMF soluble wit...

From Cheap Tubes Inc. 29 Sep 2009

New Sensor Made with Carbon Nanotubes Enable Rapid Detection of TNT and Poison in Water

A sensitive new Stanford-developed disposable chip detects low concentrations of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a close chemical cousin of the dreaded toxic nerve agent sarin in water samples. The research appears online this week in the journal ACS Nano.

24 Sep 2009

Golden Nanotubes Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Nodes

Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated carbon na...

23 Sep 2009

Disease Diagnosis, Toxin Detection and More are Possible with DNA-Graphene Nanostructure

Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between graphene and DNA, the buil...

22 Sep 2009

Thin Carbon Sheets Enhance Titanium Dioxide-Based Batteries

Researchers would like to develop lithium-ion batteries using titanium dioxide, an inexpensive material. But titanium dioxide on its own doesn't perform well enough to replace the expensive, rare-earth metals or fire...

22 Sep 2009

Arkema Announces Construction of Carbon Nanotube Pilot Production Plant

Arkema, a world leader in nanostructured materials, announces the construction of a carbon nanotube (CNT) pilot production plant at its Mont site (France, Pyrénées-Atlantiques). The 400 ton/year plant, sche...

From Arkema 21 Sep 2009

Carbon Nanotubes Have Potential to Compete with Batteries for Energy Storage

New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes - tube-shaped molecules of pure carbon - could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy, pound for pound, as state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, and potentially more durably and reliably.

21 Sep 2009

Researchers Find Mixing Different Metals in Catalyst Determine Structure and Function of Carbon Nanotubes

Nanoscopic tubes made of a lattice of carbon just a single atom deep hold promise for delivering medicines directly to a tumor, sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron, a replacement for...

20 Sep 2009