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EPA Nanomaterial Case Studies: Nanoscale Titanium Dioxide in Water Treatment and Topical Sunscreen

EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the draft document, Nanomaterial Case Studies: Nanoscale Titanium Dioxide in Water Treatment and Topical Sunscreen (External Review Draft), as announced in the July 31, 2009 Federal Register Notice. The deadline for comments is September 14, 2009.

5 Aug 2009

Creating Solar Cells that Could Power a Tent or Keep a Car Charged between Trips

On a 104-degree Friday in July when sunlight bathed The University of Arizona campus, doctoral student Dio Placencia sat before a noisy vacuum chamber in the Chemical Sciences Building trying to advance the renewable ene...

5 Aug 2009

Grant to Support Scale-up of Vertically-Integrated U.S. Battery Manufacturing System

A123Systems announced today that it was awarded a $249 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative. Under the terms of the $249 milli...

5 Aug 2009

"Door to the Future" Highlights Postdoctoral Program

Every year, the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology appoints 10 to 15 new postdoctoral research fellowships under a program sponsored by NIST and mana...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 5 Aug 2009

mPhase Technologies Completes Functional Prototype of Lithium Reserve Battery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:XDSL) today announced that it has completed the first functional prototype of its Lithium Reserve Battery that will function in the AlwaysReady Emergency Flashlight. The prototype is the ...

From MyPebble 5 Aug 2009

View of Rhodium-Based Catalyst for Hydrogen-Fuel System Offers Ideas for Improvement

An efficient catalyst is needed to get the half liter of hydrogen out of this small, 240 mg pellet of solid ammonia borane.

Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

5 Aug 2009

The Potential Adverse Health and Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles

A new study raises the possibility that flies and other insects that encounter nanomaterial "hot spots," or spills, near manufacturing facilities in the future could pick up and transport nanoparticles on their bodies, transferring the particles to other flies or habitats in the environment.

5 Aug 2009

New Photo Library Shows How Nanotechnology is Changing the Energy Consumption of the World

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, announced today that the Company has l...

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 5 Aug 2009

Three Companies Sharing Professorship of Thin Film Technology

Thin Film Technology is the field of work of Professor Wilhelm Schabel, holder of a shared professorship at the KIT: This shared professorship is the first, in which three enterprises are involved as industry partners: Bayer, BASF, and Roche.

5 Aug 2009

Stack of Nanometer-Scale Thin Films Synthesized using Diamond Isotopes

Japanese researchers have succeeded in the vapor-phase synthesis of a stack of nanometer-scale thin films of diamond using carbon isotopes 12C and 13C, which differ in mass. Electrons and holes were confined to a single material for the first time using the diamond stack.

5 Aug 2009

Nanomaterials News

EPA Nanomaterial Case Studies: Nanoscale Titanium Dioxide in Water Treatment and Topical Sunscreen

Creating Solar Cells that Could Power a Tent or Keep a Car Charged between Trips

Grant to Support Scale-up of Vertically-Integrated U.S. Battery Manufacturing System

"Door to the Future" Highlights Postdoctoral Program

mPhase Technologies Completes Functional Prototype of Lithium Reserve Battery

View of Rhodium-Based Catalyst for Hydrogen-Fuel System Offers Ideas for Improvement

The Potential Adverse Health and Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles

New Photo Library Shows How Nanotechnology is Changing the Energy Consumption of the World

Three Companies Sharing Professorship of Thin Film Technology

Stack of Nanometer-Scale Thin Films Synthesized using Diamond Isotopes

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