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Conductive Carbon Nanotube-coated "Smart Yarn" to Detect Blood and Monitor Health

A carbon nanotube-coated "smart yarn" that conducts electricity could be woven into soft fabrics that detect blood and monitor health, engineers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated.

15 Dec 2008

New Method to Electrically Characterize Individual Carbon Nanotubes

A single batch of carbon nanotubes -- molecular carbon cylinders that may one day revolutionize electronics engineering -- often includes more than 100 types of tubes, each with different optical and electrical properties. Individual electrical measurements of the molecules typically require such slow and expensive methods as electron-beam lithography.

15 Dec 2008

Electron Tunneling Could Enable Nanomotors to Rotate Faster than their Biological Counterparts

Molecular dynamics simulations show that electron tunneling through nanoscale rotary motors based on carbon nanotube shafts may enable nanotech motors to rotate more than a million times faster than their biological coun...

15 Dec 2008

Researchers Overcome Challenges with Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production

Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material

14 Dec 2008

Carbon Nanotube Sensor Capable of Seeking Out Cancer Cells in the Body

MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The sensors, made of carbon nanotubes wrapped in DNA, can detect chemotherapy drugs such a...

14 Dec 2008

New Report on Nanocomposites and Nanoporous Materials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Nanocomposites and Nanoporous Materials VIII" report to their offering. Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 8th International Symposium on Nanocom...

From Research and Markets 8 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology Research Paving Way for New Data Storage Devices and Drug Delivery Systems

A key challenge of nanotechnology research is investigating how different materials behave at lengths of merely one-billionth of a meter. When shrunk to such tiny sizes, many everyday materials exhibit interesting and potentially beneficial new properties.

8 Dec 2008

Electronic Textiles Capable of Detecting Diseases and Monitoring Heart Rates

Researchers in United States and China are reporting progress toward a simple, low-cost method to make "smart fabrics," electronic textiles capable of detecting diseases, monitoring heart rates, and other vital signs. A report on these straight-out-of-science-fiction-fibers, made of carbon nanotubes, is scheduled for the December 10 issue of ACS' Nano Letters, a monthly publication.

8 Dec 2008

Cutting-Edge Nanotechnology Resource for Australian Secondary Schools

Science teachers and technophillic teenagers around Australia were thrilled last Friday to gain access to the innovative nanotechnology resource AccessNano. Launched on November 28th at the 2008 Science Teachers Association of Victoria Conference by The Honourable Julia Gillard, The Deputy Prime Minister.

4 Dec 2008

Sigma-Aldrich Signs Agreement to Distribute SWeNT's Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) and SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. (SWeNT), a leading producer of single-wall carbon nanotubes, announced today that they have signed an agreement under which Sigma-Aldrich will distribute S...

From Sigma Aldrich 3 Dec 2008