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New Technique for Growing Carbon Nanotubes Should be Easier to Integrate with Existing Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes

MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits. Source: "Low Temperature Synthesis of Ve...

10 Sep 2009

UTSA Receives NSF to Study Nanomaterials and Their Biomedical Applications

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study nanomaterials and their biomedical applications. The NSF grant, called a Part...

10 Sep 2009

New Way to Deliver Drugs into Cancer Cells using Nanotechnology

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser. Their results are published in a recent article in ACS Nano, a journal of the American Chemical Society.

10 Sep 2009

Algae Nanostructure Can Serve as an Coating Substrate for Environmentally Friendly Batteries

A group of researchers discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of these algae can serve as an effective coating substrate for use in environmentally friendly batteries. The findings have been published in an article in Nano Letters.

10 Sep 2009

AIXTRON Receives Order for AIX 2800G4 HT Planetary Reactor from Mitsubishi Chemicals

AIXTRON AG announced today that Mitsubishi Chemicals headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has ordered one AIX 2800G4 HT Planetary Reactor system in the third quarter of 2009. The MOCVD tool is to be delivered in the 42x2 i...

From AIXTRON SE 10 Sep 2009

Southampton Nanofabrication Centre Described as "Beautiful Building"

At the opening of the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre yesterday (9 September), Professor Ian Diamond, Chair of Research Councils UK, described it as a "beautiful building", which will place Southampton as part of an excellent UK network better than anywhere in the world.

10 Sep 2009

Researchers Break World Record for the Switching Speed of Nitride-Based Transistors

Our society is insatiable as far as the transfer of data is concerned. Consequently, increasingly faster and cheaper transistors are being developed. In row in recent months, researchers from ETH Zurich have now broken the world record for the switching speed of nitride-based transistors that use silicon as a substrate several times.

10 Sep 2009