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Cambridge Scientists Produce Live Video Showing How Carbon Nanotubes Form

A Cambridge University-led team of scientists have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form. The video sequences sho...

6 Mar 2007

Live Video Footage of Carbon Nanotube Formation Produced by Cambridge University

6 Mar 2007

Controlling Movement of Water Through Nanotube Membranes Could Lead To Use In Water Purification and Genetic Research

By fusing wet and dry nanotechnologies, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found a way to control the flow of water through carbon nanotube membranes with an unprecedented level of precision. The resear...

2 Mar 2007

Bayer Says Materials Science Future is Nanotechnology and BayTubes

Bayer Material Science is attaching it's future firmly to nanotechnology as shown at the NanoTech fair in Tokyo last week. Bayer's focus was on their Baytubes® carbon nanotubes (CNTs). BayTubes were developed...

2 Mar 2007

Missouri State University Receive $6.2m Grant to Develop Carbon Nanotube-Based Satellite Components

Dr. Ryan Giedd, executive director of Missouri State University’s Roy Blunt Jordan Valley Innovation Center (JVIC), and JVIC corporate partners Nantero Inc. (Woburn, Mass.) and Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. (Houston...

28 Feb 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Deliver siRNA into Human Cells

Short pieces of RNA, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), have the potential to become a new class of anticancer drugs if researchers can solve the problem of how to deliver these fragile molecules to cancer cells. On...

27 Feb 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Transport Gene Therapy Drug into T-Cells Known to Block HIV

A promising approach to gene therapy involves short DNA fragments (interfering RNA) that bind to specific genes and block their "translation" into the corresponding, disease-related protein. A stumbling block h...

22 Feb 2007

Cellular Uptake of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes is Independent of Functional Group and Cell Type

Over the past two years, researchers have demonstrated repeatedly that certain types of carbon nanotubes are among the most effective materials known for transporting proteins, genes, and drug molecules across the cell m...

22 Feb 2007

Precise Control of Water Through a Nanotube Membrane Demonstrated

19 Feb 2007

Quasiparticle Self-Consistent GW Theory

Gold is shiny, diamonds are transparent, and iron is magnetic. Why is that? The answer lies with a material's electronic structure, which determines its electrical, optical, and magnetic properties. Sandia relies...

19 Feb 2007