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Insight into Electronic Structure and Energy Transfer Processes in Photosynthetic Complexes

A Kansas State University professor has a grant to study an area of physical chemistry that will provide more insight into the electronic structure and energy transfer processes in natural and artificial photosynthetic c...

24 Aug 2009

Flexible, Three-Dimensional Lattice Binds Carbon Dioxide Selectively and Efficiently

Until recently, factory smokestacks that produced nothing but carbon dioxide and water vapor were considered exemplary. Now CO2 has become notorious as a greenhouse gas, and the danger of climate change has become one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time.

24 Aug 2009

Researchers Discover Way to Remove Salt from Seawater using Nanotechnology

A team of researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a way to remove salt from seawater using nanotubes made from boron and nitrogen atoms that will make the process up to five times faster.

24 Aug 2009

Nanotechnology Company Announces Sales are Growing Rapidly in the Middle East

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), a global nanoscience solutions and research leader and member of the U.S. Greenbuilding Council and the American Solar Energy Society, today announced that the Company's ...

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 24 Aug 2009

Physicist Appointed Senior Position on Exciting and High-Profile Particle Physics Experiment

Prof Stefan Soldner-Rembold from University of Manchester has taken over as one of the two elected spokespeople for the Dzero experiment at Fermilab in the United States.

24 Aug 2009

Smart Ways to Manage and Re-Use Water using Nanotechnology

UniSA and SA Water are set to extend a research partnership deal that has seen SA Water invest $3.5m of funding into finding smart ways to manage and re-use water in South Australia.

23 Aug 2009

New Environmentally-Friendly Rocket Propellant Comprised of Aluminum Nanoparticles and Water Ice

NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, have successfully launched a small rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of aluminum powder and water ice, called ALICE.

23 Aug 2009

Using New Iowa State Supercomputer for Materials and Nanotechnology Research

Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University's second supercomputer.

22 Aug 2009

New Solid Catalyst for Direct Low-Temperature Oxidation of Methane to Methanol

As a possible energy source for fuel cells or a substitute for gasoline, methanol is increasingly drawing attention beyond its importance as a feedstock for chemical industry. It can be stored much more efficiently and cheaply than hydrogen and could be distributed by way of the existing network of fuelling stations.

22 Aug 2009

Technology Review Magazine Recognizes Y-Carbon's Co-Founder with Prestigious TR35 Award

Y-Carbon, Inc. today announced that its founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Ranjan Dash has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 for his contrib...

21 Aug 2009