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Xanofi Introduces XanoShear Machine for Nanofiber Production

Xanofi, a nanotech company specializing in nanofiber applications, announces a new platform for nanofiber production with their commercial XanoShear™ machine.

16 Nov 2012

New Study Shows Heat Flows Like Waves in Nanostructures

Thermoelectric devices, which can harness temperature differences to produce electricity, might be made more efficient thanks to new research on heat propagation through structures called superlattices.

16 Nov 2012

Researchers Create Wax-Filled Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles

New artificial muscles made from nanotech yarns and infused with paraffin wax can lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power during contraction than the same size natural muscle, according to scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international team from Australia, China, South Korea, Canada and Brazil.

16 Nov 2012

MIT Researchers Fabricate 3D Lightweight Metamaterial Lens

In many respects, metamaterials are supernatural. These manmade materials, with their intricately designed structures, bend electromagnetic waves in ways that are impossible for materials found in nature.

16 Nov 2012

Nanoparticle Technology Handbook's Extended and Updated Second Edition Published

A new updated and expanded second edition of the Nanoparticle Technology Handbook, published by Elsevier, is now available. This second edition includes sixteen new chapters providing a much broader reference scope than ...

From Elsevier B.V 16 Nov 2012

New Study Reveals Nanoparticles are More Harmful to Environment

New study: Higher sensitivity is found only in the offspring of water fleas, even though only the parents had been exposed to these materials

15 Nov 2012

Self-Assembling Polymer-Based Technique Shows Promise to Increase Computer Memory

The storage capacity of hard disk drives could increase by a factor of five thanks to processes developed by chemists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.

15 Nov 2012

Nanotube Cloning Process Paves Way to Use Carbon in Future Electronics

The heart of the computer industry is known as "Silicon Valley" for a reason. Integrated circuit computer chips have been made from silicon since computing's infancy in the 1960s. Now, thanks to a team of USC researchers, carbon nanotubes may emerge as a contender to silicon's throne.

15 Nov 2012

Nano Labs Secures Provisional Patent for Advanced Nano Thermal Insulation Coating

Nano Labs Corp. ("Nano Labs" or the "Company") (OTCBB: CTLE) is pleased to announce it has been issued a provisional patent for a next generation nano thermal insulation coating. The Company believes that the filing of this application marks an important milestone for the U.S.-based nanotechnology development company and for the execution of its business strategy.

15 Nov 2012

New Gold Nanorod-Based Biosensor Shows Promise to Facilitate Kidney Disease Detection

Detecting whether a patient will have acute kidney injury could become as simple as dipping a paper test strip printed with gold nanorods into a urine sample, a team of Washington University in St. Louis researchers has found.

15 Nov 2012