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Webinar Identifies New Opportunities in the Conductive Coatings Space

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm that tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in electronics created by developments in advanced materials, today announced that it will be conducting a webinar title...

21 May 2009

Engineer Explores Properties of Materials

In the 1990s, semiconductor companies began to incorporate a wider variety of materials into the construction of computer chips, selecting materials based on how they would perform electrically and not necessarily on how they would stand up to the rigors of the manufacturing process or continued use.

21 May 2009

Modumetal and University of Washington to Develop Innovative Anti-Corrosion Technology

Washington Technology Center (WTC) has awarded an Entrepreneur's Access grant to the University of Washington to support an advanced material research collaboration with Modumetal, Inc. of Seattle, Washington. Mod...

From Modumetal 21 May 2009

NGO Urges ICCM to Take Effective Action on Nanotechnology

The ICCM addressed nanotechnolgoy and manufactured nanoparticles as an emerging policy issue for the first time. ETC Group's Diana Bronson attended the meeting and worked with NGO partners to urge the ICCM to take effective action on nano-scale technologies.

21 May 2009

Researchers Demonstrate How Nanotechnology can be Incorporated onto a Disc in Order to Increase Data Capacity

Futuristic discs with a storage capacity 2,000 times that of current DVDs could be just around the corner, thanks to new research from Swinburne University of Technology. For the first time researchers from the university's Centre for Micro-Photonics have demonstrated how nanotechnology can enable the creation of 'five dimensional' discs with huge storage capacities.

20 May 2009

Nanotechnology Offers Unprecedented Advantage in Enhancing the Efficacy of Non-Viral Gene Delivery

University at Buffalo researchers have identified a new mechanism that plays a central role in adult brain stem cell development and prompts brain stem cells to differentiate into neurons. Their discovery, known as Integ...

20 May 2009

Nanotechnology Scientists Develop Method of Detecting, Tracking, and Killing Cancer Cells in Real Time with Carbon Nanotubes

Nanotechnology scientists at two Arkansas research institutions have developed a method of detecting, tracking, and killing cancer cells in real time with carbon nanotubes. The discovery opens the prospect of a new, m...

20 May 2009

New Way to Make Raspberry-Shaped Nanoparticles that Can Give Glass a Permanent Antifogging Coating

In an advance toward preventing car windshields and eyeglasses from fogging up, researchers in China are reporting development of a new way to make raspberry-shaped nanoparticles that can give glass a permanent antifogging coating.

20 May 2009

New Computer Memory Device that Can Store Thousands of Times More Data than Conventional Silicon Chips

Scientists are reporting an advance toward remedying this situation with a new computer memory device that can store thousands of times more data than conventional silicon chips with an estimated lifetime of more than one billion years. Their discovery is scheduled for publication in the June 10 issue of ACS' Nano Letters.

20 May 2009

Novel Way of Estimating How Much Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle is in the Environment

Civil engineers at Duke University believe they have come up with a novel way of estimating how much of one such material – titanium dioxide – is being generated, laying the groundwork for future studies to assess any possible risks.

20 May 2009

Nanomaterials News

Webinar Identifies New Opportunities in the Conductive Coatings Space

Engineer Explores Properties of Materials

Modumetal and University of Washington to Develop Innovative Anti-Corrosion Technology

NGO Urges ICCM to Take Effective Action on Nanotechnology

Researchers Demonstrate How Nanotechnology can be Incorporated onto a Disc in Order to Increase Data Capacity

Nanotechnology Offers Unprecedented Advantage in Enhancing the Efficacy of Non-Viral Gene Delivery

Nanotechnology Scientists Develop Method of Detecting, Tracking, and Killing Cancer Cells in Real Time with Carbon Nanotubes

New Way to Make Raspberry-Shaped Nanoparticles that Can Give Glass a Permanent Antifogging Coating

New Computer Memory Device that Can Store Thousands of Times More Data than Conventional Silicon Chips

Novel Way of Estimating How Much Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle is in the Environment

Graphene Oxide in Concrete: How the Nano-Scale is Revolutionizing the Macro-scale

Graphene Antibacterial Coating for Improved Wound Dressings

Overcoming Cancer Drug Resistance: A Novel Gold Nanoparticle Therapy

The Material That Could Rival Graphene: How UC-MAC Sharpens Proton Beams

Novel Sonication Method Creates Realistic Nanoplastics for Pollution Research

Enhancing Slurry Stability in Lithium-Ion Batteries with Turbiscan Technology

PiFM and its Role in Nanoscale Chemical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: How AI is Automating Scanning Probe Microscopy

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