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Carbon Nanotube Moving In Air Shown In New Video

A video has been posted on YouTube that shows a multi-walled carbon nanotube mounted on a sharp nickel tip flopping in room air. The simple and brief video merely shows the single nanotube moving slightly due to t...

16 Jul 2007

Obtaining Carbon Nanotube Films on Sensor Substrates

Radouane Leghrib from the University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona in Spain has released a video explaining his attempts to obtain metal-decorated carbon nanotube films on top of sensor substrates. Posted 16th July ...

16 Jul 2007

Xidex Wins New NSF Contract for Carbon Nanotube Device Manufacturing

Xidex Corporation, an Austin-based nanotechnology company, has been awarded a new contract from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop Selective Nanotube Etching, a process designed for manufacturing carbon nan...

16 Jul 2007

Headwaters Incorporated Forms Strategic Partnership with Sumitomo Chemical to Commercialize Carbon Nanospheres

Headquarters Incorporated, today announced the formation of a strategic partnership with the Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. for the development and commercialization of carbon nanospheres, a new carbon nano-material. Sum...

13 Jul 2007

Arrowhead Subsidiary Unidym Signs Strategic Alliance with Battelle to Commercialize Nanotube Based Products

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced today that its majority-owned subsidiary, Unidym, has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Battelle, a global science and technology enterprise that develops and commerciali...

13 Jul 2007

Molecular Hills and Valleys No Barrier To Electrical Charge in Materials But Defects Are A Killer

For electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes—single-atom defects in the crystal—they’re killers. That’s one...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 13 Jul 2007

Nantero Carbon Nanotube Technology and HP Thermal Inkjet Used for Printable Flexible Electronic Memory

Nantero, Inc., a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices, is working with HP to explore the use of HP inkjet technology and Nantero’s carbon nanotu...

12 Jul 2007

Surrey Nanosystems Win Major Order for Innovative Carbon Nanotube Growth Tool

Surrey NanoSystems has won a major order for its innovative carbon nanotube growth tool from ITA, the advanced technologies research institute in Trapani, Sicily. ITA selected the NanoGrowth tool for its ability to re...

From Surrey Nanosystems 12 Jul 2007

Researchers Attempt to Develop a Standard Means for Tapping the Potential of Carbon Nanotubes

In a three-year project that researchers say could revolutionize the electronics industry, engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas are attempting to establish a standard means for tapping the potential of carbon n...

4 Jul 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Unite Metals and Plastics to Form Ultra Lightweight Composite

University of Virginia engineering professor Mool C. Gupta and his team have used carbon nanotubes to unite the virtues of plastics and metals in a new ultra-lightweight, conductive material that may revolutionize electr...

4 Jul 2007