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World's Largest Carbon Nanotube Sheet Produced for Applications Like Shielding, Electrical Conductors and Structural Composites

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of next-generation performance materials, today announced it has successfully produced 3-foot by 6-foot sheets of carbon nanotube material. This significant production milestone, ...

From Nanocomp Technologies Inc 20 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology Based Experiments on Chemical Nanosensor and Variable Emissivity Film Proved Successful after NASA Space Flight

Dr. Billy R. Smith Jr., director of the USNA Small Satellite Program and MidSTAR-1 program manager, inspects MidSTAR-1 for damage after vibration testing at the Naval Research Laboratory.

20 Feb 2008

Carbon Nanotube System that Functions Like an Atomic Scale Switch

ORNL researchers have discovered a carbon nanotube-based system that functions like an atom-scale switch. Their approach is to perform first-principles calculations on positioning a molecule inside a carbon nanotube t...

14 Feb 2008

Nanoscience Instruments has Launched a New Line of Silicon Nitride Probes for Atomic Force Microscopes

HYDRA series probes feature a unique, patent-pending design that combines low stress, silicon-nitride cantilevers with sharp Silicon tips in a variety of spring constants, they are ideal for applications ranging from highly sensitive force curve measurements to soft contact mode and gentle fluid tapping mode experiments.

14 Feb 2008

Electrical Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes Set by Just One Electron

A research team from the department of condensed matter physics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid working in collaboration with the research group lead by professor Christian Schoenenberger at the Basilea univer...

13 Feb 2008

Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized Using Commercially Available Polymer Resins

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have sucessfully produced high yields of carbon nanotubes using commercially available polymer resins as precursors using a patented technique.

8 Feb 2008

Controlling Electrical Conductivity in Carbon Nanotube Composites

New measurements by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have uncovered an intriguing wrinkle. For a given CNT concentration, the electrical properties of the composite can be tuned from being a conductor to a non-conductor simply by changing processing conditions.

7 Feb 2008