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Fujitsu Wins IT and Electronics Award at nano tech 2009 International Exhibition and Conference

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced that they have been awarded the IT and Electronics Award at the nano tech 2009 International Exhibition and Conference, the largest international nanotechn...

23 Feb 2009

Crystallographic Orientation of Graphene Edges Significantly Influences Electronic Properties

Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene is cut, say researchers a...

15 Feb 2009

Size and Mobility of Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe by weight, and without it, there would be no life on Earth. Depending on its crystal structure--how its atoms bond together--carbon can form several different substances, ranging from sooty coal to glittering diamonds to slippery-smooth graphite.

10 Feb 2009

Creating Large-Scale Graphene Films using Water Lilies as Inspiration

In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter. But in order to construct new materials and devices, researchers first ...

29 Jan 2009

Researchers "Tune" Graphene's Properties by Growing it on Different Surfaces

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics.

21 Jan 2009

IBM Unveil the World's Fastest Graphene Transistor

This accomplishment is an important milestone for the Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA) program sponsored by DARPA, as part of the effort to develop the next-generation of communication devices.

21 Dec 2008

IBM Using Nanotechnology to Develop Next Generation Cell Phones

Researchers at the company are using nanotechnology to build a future generation of wireless transceivers that are much more sensitive than the ones found in phones today. They'll also be made with a less expensive m...

18 Dec 2008

New World-leading Research Center to Exploit Properties of the World's Thinnest Material for Nanotechnology Applications

The Universities of Exeter and Bath (UK) can today reveal their plans for a new world-leading research centre to explore and exploit the properties of the thinnest material in nature. The two universities have won a &pou...

18 Dec 2008

New Joint Research on Development of Graphene-based Composite Material

BASF and Vorbeck Materials Corp. have established a joint research program to develop graphene-based formulations and composite materials. As part of the collaboration, Vorbeck and BASF are developing dispersions of high...

16 Dec 2008

Inventor of Nanocar Receives Prestigious 2008 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize

James Tour, the inventor of the nanocar at Rice University, has been awarded the prestigious Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental nanotechnology for 2008 by the California think tank dedicated to the benefi...

16 Dec 2008