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Safety of Cosmetics Containing Nanoparticles Questioned at BA Festival of Science

Fears were expressed about the safety of some cosmetics at the BA Festival of Science in York on Wednesday. The products contain buckyballs – carbon molecules known as fullerenes – whose safety in cosmetic...

13 Sep 2007

Award Nominated RainMaker Humidification System to be Demonstrated at NanoTX'07

RASIRC™, the steam purification company, will demonstrate its RainMaker Humidification System (RHS) that has been selected by the editors of R&D Magazine and MICRO/NANO newsletter as one of the most innovative ...

12 Sep 2007

New Benchmarks in Precision Control of Jet Printing

By combining electrically induced fluid flow with nanoscale nozzles, researchers at the University of Illinois have established new benchmarks for precision control and resolution in jet-printing processes. “We ...

7 Sep 2007

Nanopantography Technique May Make LCD Screens Obselete In Favour of Field Emission Displays or FEDs

Although relatively new to the market, liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions may soon be obsolete, thanks to a new technique created by University of Houston professors. Vincent Donnelly, Demetre Economou and Paul ...

6 Sep 2007

Bayer Open Another Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Facility

Bayer MaterialScience AG is opening a second production facility for Baytubes®, its carbon nanotubes, at H.C. Starck GmbH in the town of Laufenburg on the German-Swiss border. The new facility has an annual capacity ...

From Covestro AG 5 Sep 2007

Better Methods of Making CNTs More Predictable

Imagine using minuscule structures the size of molecules to harvest sunlight and convert it into electricity. Or employing the same structures to store hydrogen fuel so that it fits into a car’s gas tank. Or replac...

5 Sep 2007

Nanotailor License NASA TEchnology to Commercially Produce Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

A NASA-developed innovative process is making waves in the nanotechnology field and spurring the development of new companies in the process. A new company based in Austin, Texas, Nanotailor, has licensed NASA Goddard Sp...

5 Sep 2007

Is Length Really Important - Apparently It is if you are a Carbon Nanotube wanting to Absorb Light

If you want to exploit the ability of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to absorb, fluoresce and scatter light, take the advice of a sandlot quarterback and “go long.” In the Aug. 29, 2007, issue of ...

5 Sep 2007

CHF 1 Million Balzan Prize Awarded for Nanoscience

One of the four International Balzan Prizes 2007, which have a prize fund of CHF 1 million (EUR 610 thousand), is to be awarded for research in the area of nanoscience to Sumio Iijima, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. ...

4 Sep 2007