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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

Russians Using Neutron Scanning to Search for Drugs, Explosives and Other Contraband Items

Specialists from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (town of Chernogolovka, Moscow Region), together with their colleagues from Joined Institute for Nuclear Research and the ASPECT Close Jo...

27 Mar 2008

Carbon Nanotube Company, Carbon Nanoprobes, Awarded Grant

The nanotechnology company Carbon Nanoprobes Inc. (CN Probes) was awarded an Industrial Incentive Grant from the Materials Research Institute of Penn State this week. The Materials Research Institute will provide funds f...

27 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Funding for Plextronics Research into Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Plextronics, Inc. announced today that after a competitive review of submitted proposals, the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center's Center's technical advisory committee and governing board approv...

26 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Tackles Balding as Nanomedicine Prototype Promotes Hair Growth

Luna Innovations have announced the discovery that a nanomedicine prototype aids in the growth of new hair follicles and may lead to a nanotechnology based treatment for baldness

26 Mar 2008

Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Funding for Companies using Nanotechnology to Develop New Products and Processes

The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center concluded its third round of funding for companies using nanotechnology to develop new products and processes. After a competitive review of submitted proposals,...

26 Mar 2008

Carbon Nanotubes May Be a Base Material for Future Computers as Electrons are Over 100 Times Faster in Graphene than Silicon

University of Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature. Graph...

25 Mar 2008

Air Force Contract Awarded to Nanotechnology Company, Nanocomp Technologies, to Develop Light Weight Carbon Nanotube Electrical Wires

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy-saving performance materials and component products, today announced it has been awarded a Phase One contract by the United States Air Force under the Department of Defe...

From Nanocomp Technologies Inc 25 Mar 2008

PPG Volunteers for U.S. EPA Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program

PPG Industries has volunteered to participate in the basic program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program (NMSP). The EPA launched the voluntary progr...

From PPG Industries Inc. 25 Mar 2008

Nanomedicine Workshop to be Held by Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials will host a gathering of scientists, engineers and medical researchers at a workshop that will explore both the science and the emerging bu...

25 Mar 2008