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Measurements of Eectrical Charge in Carbon Nanotubes Could Lead to Ultra Tiny Computers of the Future

IBM scientists have announced that they have measured the distribution of electrical charges in tubes of carbon that measure less than 2 nanometers in diameter, 50,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair. $$IMAG...

16 Oct 2007

Carbon Nanotube Forests Connect Computer Chips to Heat Sinks

Engineers have shown how to grow forests of tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes onto the surfaces of computer chips to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where the chips connect to cooling devices called hea...

2 Oct 2007

Using Carbon Nanotubes to Detect and Repair Cracks in Structures like Aircraft Wings

Adding even a small amount of carbon nanotubes can go a long way toward enhancing the strength, integrity, and safety of plastic materials widely used in engineering applications, according to a new study. $$IMAGE$$ ...

28 Sep 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Have Room for Multifunctionality

In the quest to turn carbon nanotubes from nanoscale wonder into clinically useful drug and imaging agent delivery agents, researchers have often added polymer coatings to the outside of the nanotubes in order to render ...

28 Sep 2007

Surrey Nanosystems Win Award for Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Tool

Surrey NanoSystems, a spinout from The University of Surrey which has developed a tool for manufacturing carbon nanotubes, has been recognised by an awards scheme that follows ground-breaking research by UK universities ...

From Surrey Nanosystems 28 Sep 2007

Near Infrared Fluorescent Imaging Detects DNA Sized Nanotubes Inside Living Animals

Rice University scientists have captured the first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism. Using fruit flies, the researchers confirmed that a technique developed at Rice - near-infrared fluorescent ...

25 Sep 2007

Nanotech Spin Off Owes its Success to a Napkin

Some great inventions are birthed at a bar, their futures scribbled on cocktail napkins. Multi-pixel X-ray technology, the first substantial technological change in X-rays in more than a century, was born over a greasy P...

20 Sep 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Help Bone Grow on Titanium Implants

For orthopaedic implants to be successful, bone must meld to the metal that these artificial hips, knees and shoulders are made of. A team of Brown University engineers, led by Thomas Webster, has discovered a new materi...

18 Sep 2007

Graphene Sheet of Carbon Atoms Acts Like Billiard Table, May Replace Silicon in Computer Chips

A game of billiards may never get smaller than this. Physicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene – a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings – can act as an atomic-scal...

17 Sep 2007

Patent Issued for Carbon Nanotube Based Transparent Electrodes

Unidym Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that U.S. Patent No. 7,265,174 has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. With respect to transparent conductive f...

13 Sep 2007