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Company to Demonstrate New Conductive Ink Technology at Printed Electronics And Photovoltaics Show

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT), the leader in high quality, single-wall and specialty multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNT), will be presenting performance data on its new conductive carbon nanotube inks at the Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics USA 2010 conference. SWeNT will also have information available in the exhibition area (Booth 80).

5 Nov 2010

World’s Highest-Energy Collisions Of Lead Ions

The Large Hadron Collider’s first record-setting run of high-energy proton collisions ended today, and scientists are now readying the accelerator to meet its next challenge: the world’s highest-energy collisions of lead ions.

4 Nov 2010

Revolutionary New Polymer Film Changes Shape Upon Irradiation with UV and Visible Light

Japanese researchers at RIKEN have successfully developed a revolutionary new polymer film that changes shape upon irradiation with UV and visible light.

4 Nov 2010

New Therapy Will Prevent Growth of Bone Formations That Hamper Amputees' Use of Prostheses

Carnegie Mellon University's Bone Tissue Engineering Center is working to help soldiers who have lost limbs in combat. CMU's Jeffrey O. Hollinger, director of the center, and Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ...

4 Nov 2010

Indium Shortage Could Advance Carbon Nanotube Technologies

The big race in the consumer electronics industry is to find more indium, or maybe even an adequate replacement. The reason being, it is this Indium which is used to create indium tin oxide or ITO. ITO is used to form...

4 Nov 2010

White House Wants to Broaden Applications of Nanotechnology

The White House is making efforts to garner public support for its plans for a $1.8 billion research and development program aimed at broadening the applications of nanotechnology. The National Nanotechnology Initiati...

4 Nov 2010

Medvedev Fosters Nanotechnology Growth in Russia

Reiterating its presence in the world of nanotechnology, Russia announced its plans for the establishment of an indigenous, full fledged nanotechnology branch on Wednesday. The announcement came from Russian President Dm...

4 Nov 2010

Study on Superconducting Properties of Ultrathin Film

Using a combination of unique tools to build and analyze films just nanometers thick, a group of researchers found subtle structural changes that are known to alter superconducting properties.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 4 Nov 2010

Texas A+M’s Professor and Team Works Towards Next-Generation Nanomedicine

Texas A&M is one of the world's leading research facilities. It invests more than $582 million annually toward research, which ranks the University third in the nation. A&M is also one of five institutions...

4 Nov 2010

Researchers Create New Metamaterial for Use in Smart Fabrics

Flexible smart materials that can manipulate light to shield objects from view have been much-theorised but now researchers in Scotland have made a practical breakthrough that brings the possibility of an invisibility ca...

4 Nov 2010