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Bayer MaterialScience and Nanoledge Join Forces

During the JEC Composites Show, taking place from April 3rd to April 5th in Paris, Bayer MaterialScience, one of the world's leading producers of polymers and high-performance plastics and Nanoledge, the European lea...

4 Apr 2007

Atomistic Model Helps Students Visualize Nanoscale Problems

Civil engineers by tradition are concerned with the big picture, but some are refocusing their vision, zooming in to solve minute problems we can't see with the naked eye, like tiny fractures in polymers, silicon or ...

4 Apr 2007

Delft University Scientists Predict How Nanostructuring Affects Performance of Li-ion Batteries

Researchers at Delft University of Technology can predict how nanostructuring - the extreme reduction of structure - will affect the performance of Li-ion batteries. The nanostructuring of battery materials is likely to ...

4 Apr 2007

Special House Walls Containing Nano Polymer Particles

Leeds NanoManufacturing Institute (NMI) will play a crucial role in the Euro 9.5 million European Union-funded project by developing special walls for the house that contain nano polymer particles - these will turn into ...

4 Apr 2007

Predicting The Performance of Nanobatteries

Researchers at Delft University of Technology can predict how nanostructuring – the extreme reduction of structure – will affect the performance of Li-ion batteries. The nanostructuring of battery materials i...

3 Apr 2007

Technique Creates Metal Memory

Crumpled kitchen foil that lays flat for reuse. Bent bumpers that straighten overnight. Dents in car doors that disappear when heated with a hairdryer. These and other physical feats may become possible with a technique ...

2 Apr 2007

Cooling Carbon Nanotubes

As the electronics industry continues to churn out smaller and slimmer portable devices, manufacturers have been challenged to find new ways to combat the persistent problem of thermal management. New research published ...

2 Apr 2007

Composition and Density of Nanoscale Calcium-Silicate-Hydrate in Cement

Using a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has shed new light on one of mankind's older constructio...

2 Apr 2007

European Nanobiocom Project Aims to Develop Intelligenet Bone Replacement Materials

More than half a million people in the European Union and a million in the United States suffer from disorders in or serious defects of some part of their bone structure. Operations involving grafts or implants, required...

2 Apr 2007

Nanometrics Install Photoluminescence Mapping System at Philips Electronics Microsystems Plaza

Nanometrics Incorporated, the leading supplier of both advanced integrated and standalone metrology equipment for the semiconductor and related industries, today announced the successful installation of its recently intr...

30 Mar 2007