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New Market Analysis on Nanocoatings for Aerospace Applications 2010

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Nanocoatings for Aerospace Applications" to their offering. Nanocoatings for Aerospace Applications (Technical Insig...

4 Dec 2010

Research Team Uses Nanotubes to Create New Generation Fibers

Researchers at Northwestern University have nanoengineered a new kind of fiber that could be tougher than Kevlar.

4 Dec 2010

Researchers Create Gold and Silver Nanoparticles for Christmas Tree Decorations

They might just be the smallest Christmas tree decorations ever. Tiny spherical particles of gold and silver that are more than 100 million times smaller than the gold and silver baubles used to decorate seasonal fir tre...

4 Dec 2010

Maryland University Wins $5.1 Million Federal Cash to Move Projects into Market

Several of the most promising technological research projects at University System of Maryland-related labs are getting a strategic infusion of federal cash to help them through the most difficult phase of development, and move them toward the commercial market.

3 Dec 2010

Rice Scientists Discover New Process to Enhance Nanotubes Fluorescence

Rice University researchers have discovered a simple way to make carbon nanotubes shine brighter. The Rice lab of researcher Bruce Weisman, a pioneer in nanotube spectroscopy, found that adding tiny amounts of ozone t...

3 Dec 2010

UMass Scientists Discover Interspecies Electron Transfer in Microorganisms

University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologists Derek Lovley, Zarath Summers and colleagues report in the Dec. 2 issue of Science that they have discovered a new cooperative behavior in anaerobic bacteria, known as i...

From University of Massachusetts Amherst 3 Dec 2010

MU Scientists and Shasun Pharmaceuticals Join to Open New Nanomedicine Company

University of Missouri leaders celebrated a nanomedicine milestone today as they announced the creation of a new drug development company. The new company forms a partnership between university researchers and an inte...

3 Dec 2010

Georgia Tech Physicist Wins Materials Research Society Medal for Developing Epi-Graphene

The Materials Research Society awarded Walter A. de Heer, professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the MRS Medal at its annual fall meeting in Boston today.

From Georgia Institute of Technology 3 Dec 2010

Dutch Professors Win 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for Graphene Discovery

They are now Knight Commanders in the Order of the Netherlands Lion – the country's most prestigious award. The academics, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of graphene, were handed...

3 Dec 2010

RTI Scientists Approve Alchimer’s Electrografting Film for 3D Applications

Alchimer S.A., a provider of nanometric deposition technology for through-silicon vias (TSVs), semiconductor interconnects and other electronic applications, said today its Electrografting technology has been validated by scientists at RTI International (RTI).

3 Dec 2010