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Time Magazine Selects Carbon Nanotube-Based Invisibility Cloak for List of Best Inventions 2011

Time Magazine has selected a program co-financed by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for its 2011 List of Best Inventions.

23 Nov 2011

Novel Material Innovation Helps Improve Carbon Nanotube-Based Field Emission Devices

A research team at Monash University located in Australia, in partnership with researchers at CSIRO Process Science and Engineering has developed a potential and easily producible substitute for plastics known as amorphous bulk metallic glass (ABM), paving the way to overcome the drawbacks of field emission devices based on carbon nanotubes embedded in plastics.

23 Nov 2011

Novel Carbon Nanotube Separation Technique Aids Advanced Electronic Technologies

During the production of carbon nanotubes, tubes that are useful for solar cell applications get mixed with tubes that are useful for battery applications, resulting in a nanotube powder that cannot be used for any commercial purpose.

19 Nov 2011

Nanocomp Technologies to Supply Carbon Nanotube Products to Depeartment of Defence Project

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), today announced it has been selected by the United States Government, under the Defense Production Ac...

From Huntsman International LLC 16 Nov 2011

Study Reveals that Carbon Nanotubes Have no Toxic Effects on Green Algae

An Empa research study on nanomaterials for example, carbon nanotubes has revealed that carbon nanotubes inhibit the growth of green algae by reducing the amount of space and light supplied to the plant but the material does not affect the plant lethally.

8 Nov 2011

Reportlinker Releases Report on Global Carbon Nanotubes Market

Online research website Reportlinker has released a report on the global carbon nanotubes (CNT) market for the period of 2011-2016. The study also covers SWNCTs and MWNCTs, market trends and future outlooks, the latest technologies and applications of the market.

From ReportLinker 4 Nov 2011

Research Fund to Improve Strength of Carbon Nanotube Materials for Satellite Applications

The US Department of Defense issues $4.5 million fund over a four-year period to the scientists at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science for reinforcing carbon nanotube sheets and yarns for satellite technology applications.

From University of California, Los Angeles 4 Nov 2011