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Combining Plastics and Nanoparticles to Achieve New Properties

These days, plastic components are vital to many fields of industry – lightweight construction, automobile manufacturing and electrical engineering, to name but a few. Now researchers have found ingenious ways to combine plastics with nanoparticles and endow them with new properties.

14 Oct 2010

Modern, Compact Ion Injector Feeds New Kinds of Particles to RHIC and NSRL

A new source of ions will soon be the starting point for the beams entering two major research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory — the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), where physicists are recreating conditions of the early universe to learn more about the forces that hold matter together, and the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), where scientists study the effects of space radiation to help find ways to protect astronauts.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 14 Oct 2010

First Nanotitanium Dental Implant to be Placed in the Mouth of Co-Inventor

A group of ground-breaking American and Russian scientists, led by Dr. Terry Lowe, chief scientist at Manhattan Scientifics (OTCBB: MHTX) are taking Cold War weapons technology and repurposing it for peaceful use in medi...

14 Oct 2010

Scientists Develop New Nano-Enhanced Water Filtering Technology

With almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water, scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills up to 98 percent of dis...

14 Oct 2010

SiEnergy Systems to Showcase Prototype Thin Film Micro Fuel Cells

SiEnergy Systems LLC, a Harvard spin-off company commercializing novel solid oxide fuel cells using nanometer scale oxide thin films, will be exhibiting at the 2010 Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition to be held in San Anto...

14 Oct 2010

Microscopic Pores in Silicon Improves Storage Capacity of Lithium-Ion Batteries

A team of Rice University and Lockheed Martin scientists has discovered a way to use simple silicon to radically increase the capacity of lithium-ion batteries.

14 Oct 2010

Chitin-Silicon Dioxide Nanocomposite Manufactured using Self-Organization and Sol-Gel Chemistry

Self-organization processes involving chemical building blocks are the basis for many biological processes and are increasingly of interest in the field of materials synthesis, for example in the production of highly ordered nanocomposites or high-porosity materials with special properties.

13 Oct 2010

Nanometric Deposition Technology Provider Alchimer Expands in the Japanese Market

Alchimer S.A., a provider of nanometric deposition technology for through-silicon vias (TSVs), semiconductor interconnects and other electronic applications, is extending its presence in Japan under terms of a new agreement with the Nagase ChemteX unit of Tokyo-based Nagase & Co., Ltd.

13 Oct 2010