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Nano-Composites Improve Performance of Pirelli Tyres

As McLaren’s sole tyre supplier and technical partner, Pirelli has developed bespoke versions of the P Zero and P Zero Corsa on the new MP4-12C for road and track use respectively. The performance of this “dedicated” tyre were tested last week on the Ascari circuit, near Ronda (Spain), during the presentation of the new supercar.

20 Oct 2012

New Facilities to Explore Neurotechnology and Nanobiophotonics at INRS

Professors Tiago Falk and Fiorenzo Vetrone of INRS (Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications Centre) will soon have new facilities available for exploring the world of neurotechnology and nanobiophotonics.

20 Oct 2012

SWeNT to Present Specialty Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes at SAMPE Tech 2012

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, the world leader in high quality, Single-Wall and Specialty Multi-Wall (SMW™) carbon nanotubes (CNT), will present its new SMW™ line of Specialty Multi-wall CNT at the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Tech 2012 conference in Charleston, South Carolina.

20 Oct 2012

Multi-Functional, NIR Responsive Gold Nanorods for Targeted Delivery of Chemotherapy Drugs

Excitement around the potential for targeted nanoparticles (NPs) that can be controlled by stimulus outside of the body for cancer therapy has been growing over the past few years. More specifically, there has been considerable attention around near-infrared (NIR) light as an ideal method to stimulate nanoparticles from outside the body.

19 Oct 2012

Novel Technique for Growing New Materials from Nanorods

A team of researchers from the University of Florida department of chemistry has developed a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods.

19 Oct 2012

Strange, Wonderful Things Occur in Monolayered Materials

Strange and wonderful things happen in materials just one atom thick.

19 Oct 2012

New Graphene-Cobalt Material Holds Potential to Replace Platinum in Fuel Cells

There's a new contender in the race to find an inexpensive alternative to platinum catalysts for use in hydrogen fuel cells.

18 Oct 2012

German Nanosciences Institute Director to Deliver Keynote Speech at Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum

The director of a nanosciences institute in Dresden, Germany, is the keynote speaker at the 13th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Oct. 24 at Vanderbilt University. The Forum and NanoDay! activities are sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Materials Science.

17 Oct 2012

New Joint Research Deal to Advance Carbon-Based Nanomanufacturing Industry

The nascent industry of carbon-based nanomanufacturing will benefit from a new cooperative venture between scientists at Rice University and its Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md.

17 Oct 2012

Critically Needed Chemical Metrology Enabled By AFM-IR

Anasys Instruments reports on joint research with the University of Illinois' Department of Engineering where nanotechnology-based materials identification enables critically needed chemical metrology for nano-manufacturing.

16 Oct 2012