Fullerenes News

RSS

Smaller, Faster and Cheaper Electronics the Result of Nanotechnology Research Discovering Electricity Conducting Carbon Molecules

University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain circumstances and, in turn, conduct electricity as well as met...

18 Apr 2008

Buckyball Clumping Altered With Citrate May Hold Environmental Solutions for Nanoparticles

Fullerenes, also fondly known as buckyballs, are showing an ugly side. Since being discovered in 1985, the hollow carbon atoms have been adapted for nanotechnology and biomedical applications ranging from electronics to ...

9 Apr 2008

Buckyball Carbon Nanoparticles Found to be Harmless to Environmental Cleanup Microbes

Even large amounts of manufactured nanoparticles, also known as Buckyballs, don't faze microscopic organisms that are charged with cleaning up the environment, according to Purdue University researchers.

9 Apr 2008

Nanoparticle Based Composite Coating for Plating Advanced Parts and Components

ApNano Materials, Inc, a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced that the pan-European FOREMOST consortium has completed the development of its first composite coating, based on ApNano Materials’...

28 Mar 2008

Buckyballs Shown To Hold Hydrogen at Similar Densities to the Centre of Jupiter

Hydrogen could be a clean, abundant energy source, but it's difficult to store in bulk. In new research, materials scientists at Rice University have made the surprising discovery that tiny carbon capsules called buc...

25 Mar 2008

Market for Nanotechnology in Wireless Handsets to reach $15 billion by 2012

As nanotechnology aids in improving the performance of wireless handsets, the market for nanotech-enabled wireless components is expected to grow rapidly.

20 Mar 2008

New Nanotechnology Facility to Begin Bulk Manufacturing of Fullerenes

The unique complex designed and built from several units by specialists of the Closed Joint-Stock Company “Innovations of the Leningrad Institutes and Enterprises” (St. Petersburg) enables to produce kilogram...

18 Mar 2008

Largest Meeting of Physicists Happening in New Orleans - But if You Don't Look in the Conference Room, Are They Really There

The March Meeting of American Physical Society is taking place from March 10-14, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. More than 7,000 scientists are expected to be on hand. The principal topic areas will be condensed matter p...

11 Mar 2008

World First With Self Organising Carbon Nanotube Composites Suited for Use In High Temperature Electronics

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the successful formation of a new nano-scale carbon composite featuring a self-organizing structure, by combining carbon nanotubes and graphene which are both nano-scale carbon structures.

3 Mar 2008

Solar Cell Efficiency Significantly Improved With New Anode Coating

The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California’s Mojave Desert could power all of the United States’ electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimat...

26 Feb 2008