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Worldwide Market Challenges and Opportunities for Nanomaterials

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Nanomaterials - Worldwide Market Challenges + Opportunities" report to their offeri...

From Research and Markets 2 Dec 2009

Buhler to Collaborate with Micronisers Australasia on Nano-Sized Performance Additives

Buhler Group has entered into a strategic collaboration in the field of nano-sized performance additives with the Australian company Micronisers Australasia Pty Ltd.

2 Dec 2009

Nanotechnology Professor Wins 2009 Peter Mark Memorial Award

Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics with joint appointments at UCFs NanoScience Technology Center and the Department of Environmental Engineering, has received the 2009 Peter Mark M...

2 Dec 2009

Researchers Using Nanotechnology to Lengthen Lifetime of Carbon Electrodes

Researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology, in collaboration with colleagues from University of Tehran, introduced a highly efficient method for the modification of carbon electrodes which enables them to detect s...

2 Dec 2009

Researchers Create "Synthetic" Magnetic Fields for Ultracold Gas Atoms

The demonstration, described in the latest issue of the journal Nature, not only paves the way for exploring the complex natural phenomena involving charged particles in magnetic fields, but may also contribute to an exotic new form of quantum computing.

2 Dec 2009

The Most Complex and Comprehensive Science Project Ever Assembled on the Planet

Faculty and students from Louisiana Tech University are playing an important role in what has been described as "the most complex and comprehensive science project ever assembled on the planet." The Large Ha...

2 Dec 2009

Researchers Use Lasers to Create First Practical Macroscopic Yarns from Boron Nitride Fibers

Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to stronger body armor, according to a just-published study.

2 Dec 2009

Nanocoating Breaks Down Hydrogen Sulfide and Other VOCs Associated with Chinese Drywall

OxiTitan VLR: The cost-effective solution for homes affected by tainted Chinese drywall. Leading testing laboratory shows that the advanced transparent nanoparticle mineral coating breaks down hydrogen sulfide and other Volatile Organic Compounds associated with Chinese drywall.

2 Dec 2009

Oxford Instruments Deliver First High Field Helium Recondensing Magnets to World-Class Neutron Scattering Facilities

Oxford Instruments has collaborated with two World-class neutron scattering facilities, the ISIS Neutron Source (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot) and the ILL neutron facility (Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble...

1 Dec 2009

Networks of Chitin Filaments are Integral Components of Diatom Silica Shells

Researchers at TU Dresden and the Max Planck Institute the Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden have now identified another component of the diatom cell walls. As the team led by Eike Brunner reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they found an organic network of crosslinked chitin filaments.

1 Dec 2009