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New Findings to Create Practical Spacetime Cloak

While a range of ingenious man-made materials bring us ever closer to realising the possibility of cloaking objects from visible light, research from Imperial College London is now taking invisibility into the fourth dim...

17 Nov 2010

Researchers Create an Alternative to Conventional Logic Gates Using Silicon

In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates."

17 Nov 2010

Industrial Nanotech Expands Sales of Nansulate Liquid Insulation Technology

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology based energy saving solutions, today announced that the Company is successfully expanding its sales of patented Nansulate® liquid insulation technology into the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) market. Nansulate® is the Company's patented product line of award winning, nanotechnology based specialty coatings which are well-documented to provide the combined performance qualities of thermal insulation, corrosion prevention, resistance to mold growth, fire resistance, chemical resistance and lead encapsulation in an environmentally safe, sustainable, water-based coating formulation.

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 17 Nov 2010

Chinese Physicists Design Artificial EM Black Hole Using Nanoparticles

While our direct knowledge of black holes in the universe is limited to what we can observe from thousands or millions of light years away, a team of Chinese physicists has proposed a simple way to design an artificial e...

17 Nov 2010

Researchers Discover New Imaging Tool to Screen Nanotubes

Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for rapidly screening structures called single-wall carbon nanotubes, possibly hastening their use in creating a new class of computers and electronics that are faster and consume less power than today's.

17 Nov 2010

Impact of Nanotechnology on Agriculture Industry

Using particles that are 1/100,000 the width of a human hair to deliver drugs to cells or assist plants in fighting off pests may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but these scenarios may be a common o...

17 Nov 2010

The Future for Nanopillars Now Looks Brighter Than Ever

Sunlight represents the cleanest, greenest and far and away most abundant of all energy sources, and yet its potential remains woefully under-utilized. High costs have been a major deterrant to the large-scale applications of silicon-based solar cells.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Nov 2010