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Carbon Nanotubes Significantly Improve Overall Toughness and Durability of Composites

New research finding could lead to more durable aircraft, automotive components.A new research discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could lead to tougher, more durable composite frames for aircraft, watercraft, and automobiles.

26 Mar 2009

Market for Graphene to Reach $59 Million in 2015

The price and performance advantages of graphene -- ultra-thin sheets of carbon atoms -- over incumbent carbon-based nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, have made the material a hot topic in nanotech circles. These ...

26 Mar 2009

Conference Discusses Carbon Nanocarbons from Biological to Biomedical and Environmental Effects

Carbon Nanotubes (CNT), discovered in 1991, have amazing mechanical, thermal and electrical conductivity, as well as excellent field emission properties. Actual uses of CNT are already about to be numerous (car industry, sport accessories, etc.), and future applications are foreseen to be in constant development.

24 Mar 2009

UW-Madison to Present Series of Public Nanotechnology Events During Nano Days

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on Nanostructured Interfaces presents NanoDays 2009, part of the second annual nationwide festival of educational programs abo...

21 Mar 2009

New Type of Artificial Muscle based on Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers at the UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute have demonstrated a fundamentally new type of artificial muscle, which can operate at extreme temperatures where no other artificial muscle can be used -- from below the temperature of liquid nitrogen (-196° C) to above the melting point of iron (1538° C).

20 Mar 2009

We are Done with Metals, Engineers Prove Carbon Nanotubes are Superior to Metals for Electronics

In the quest to pack ever-smaller electronic devices more densely with integrated circuits, nanotechnology researchers keep running up against some unpleasant truths: higher current density induces electromigration and t...

20 Mar 2009

Next Generation Multiple Sclerosis Drug Based on "Buckyballs"

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive "geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel Aviv University chemists remember them too - and are now putting them to use in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).

19 Mar 2009