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Cutter's Mill Pet Store to Distribute Dog Gone Smart Pet Beds

Nano Pet Products, LLC, a Wilton, Connecticut-based company dedicated to bringing cleaner and healthier pet products to pet owners worldwide through nanotechnology, has partnered with PA-based premium natural pet product...

11 Jun 2009

Conference Highlights New Development in Nanotechnology

Over 50 International speakers to present their findings, with a keynote by Nobel Laureate, Douglas Osheroff, professor of Stanford University. "The convergence of Nano and Bio technology underscores the need for co...

11 Jun 2009

Scientists Counteract Nanoparticle Lung Damage in Mice

Scientists have identified for the first time a mechanism by which nanoparticles cause lung damage and have demonstrated that it can be combated by blocking the process involved, taking a step toward addressing the growi...

10 Jun 2009

Tunable Bandgap Means Tunable Transistors, LEDs and Lasers

Today's transistors and light emitting diodes (LED) are based on silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors, which have fixed electronic and optical properties. Now, University of California, Berkeley, researchers ha...

10 Jun 2009

Partnership Results in Promising New Tool for Fighting Infections

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it&#39...

10 Jun 2009

A Widely Tunable Bandgap in Bilayer Graphene

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But there's a catch: graphene has no bandgap.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 10 Jun 2009

Formation of Interconnected Carbon Nanostructures on Graphene Substrate in a Simple Assembly Process

Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania, Sandia National Laboratories and Rice University have demonstrated the formation of interconnected carbon nanostructures on graphene substrate in a simple assembly process that involves heating few-layer graphene sheets to sublimation using electric current that may eventually lead to a new paradigm for building integrated carbon-based devices.

10 Jun 2009