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Quantum Dot Nanoparticles Penetrate Skin Through Abrasion

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that quantum dot nanoparticles can penetrate the skin if there is an abrasion, providing insight into potential workplace concerns for healthcare workers or indiv...

3 Jul 2008

ApNano Materials Announces Major Breakthrough in WS2 Nanotube Production for Bulletproof Vests

ApNano Materials, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced a major breakthrough in the production of the company's unique, inorganic tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanotubes in industrial quantities.

1 Jul 2008

New Carbon-Based Products from Cutting Edge Nanotechnology Research

From diamonds, the world's hardest mineral, to the soft graphite used in pencils, the many forms of the versatile element carbon have been used and appreciated by humans for centuries. Now visitors to this year&rs...

1 Jul 2008

Report Provides Analysis, Information and Key Players in Nanotechnology

"Nanomaterials and Markets" report provides detailed market analysis, commercial information and key players in nanotechnology. This report presents a clear picture of the scale of opportunity in nanotechno...

30 Jun 2008

The Study of Nanoscale Carbon Materials Represents the New School

In the grand scope of scientific understanding, the study of nanoscale carbon materials represents the new school. It has been little more than 20 years since the discovery of "buckyballs," hollow spherical...

24 Jun 2008

Addition of Carbon Nanotubes Improves Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Composites

Nano-Proprietary, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Applied Nanotech, Inc. ("ANI") has achieved substantial improvements in the epoxy-based materials used in a variety of industries. ANI has been performing re...

18 Jun 2008

Nanotechnology Safety and How Buckyballs Invade Cells

A new study into the potential health hazards of the revolutionary nano-sized particles known as ‘buckyballs’ predicts that the molecules are easily absorbed into animal cells, providing a possible explanatio...

28 May 2008

ApNano Announces Distributor of High Performance Lubricant Additives

ApNano Materials, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced that the Multisol Group, a leading distributor of advanced lubricating materials in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, in cooper...

13 May 2008

Nanoparticle Contamination of Water Depends on Subtle Difference in the Water Itself

The fate of carbon-based nanoparticles spilled into groundwater – and the ability of municipal filtration systems to remove the nanoparticles from drinking water – depend on subtle differences in the solution properties of the water carrying the particles, a new study has found

5 May 2008

From Hummers to Golf Clubs and Cosmetics, Three or Four New Consumer Products Containing Nanotechnology Hit The Market Every Week

New nanotechnology consumer products are coming on the market at the rate of 3-4 per week, a finding based on the latest update to the nanotechnology consumer product inventory maintained by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies

24 Apr 2008