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Graphene 100 Times Stronger Than Steel

In manufacturing self-lubricating components for the tool and die industry, the SelfLube Company uses graphite as a solid lubricant.

18 Oct 2010

Scientists Image Monopoles Inside Artificial Magnetic Nano-Metamaterial

Scientists have captured the first direct images of magnetic monopoles which were theoretically conceived by the British-Swiss physicist Dirac in the early 1930s who showed that their existence is consistent with the ult...

18 Oct 2010

Polyurethane Nanofoams Double Insulating Performance

Bayer MaterialScience is working on the development of polyurethane nanofoams that could lead to a quantum leap in thermal insulation performance several years down the road.

15 Oct 2010

Industrial Nanotech Announces Increase in Nansulate Coating Exports

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology based energy saving solutions, today announced that the Company has experienced an increase in exports of their patented Nansulate...

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 15 Oct 2010

Stony Brook University Professor Receives NIH Grant for Groundbreaking Work in Nanomedicine

Balaji Sitharaman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University, is a 2010 recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award.

15 Oct 2010

Nanoparticles-Based Coating Can Reduce Wear on Engine Parts

Engine friction — the force that wastes almost 1.4 million barrels of oil per day in cars and trucks in the United States alone — could become less of a problem for fuel-conscious consumers thanks to promisin...

From American Chemical Society 15 Oct 2010

Quantum State Measurement of Electrons in Diamond

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have succeeded in combining laser light with trapped electrons to detect and control the electrons' fragile quantum state without erasing it. This is an important step toward using quan...

15 Oct 2010

Novel Nanowire Technique Leads to Development of Low-Cost Biosensors

Scientists at the University of Leeds have perfected a new technique that allows them to make molecular nanowires out of thin strips of ring-shaped molecules known as discotic liquid crystals (DLCs). The findings coul...

15 Oct 2010

Solving Single Molecule Mobility

Nanotechnologists assemble intricate nanodevices, such as computer chips, molecule by molecule using ‘bottom-up’ techniques that mirror nature. One approach shuttles molecules along surfaces into new and func...

14 Oct 2010

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