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Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Metal Oxide Arrays to Improve Lithium Battery Technology

Need to store electricity more efficiently? Put it behind bars. That's essentially the finding of a team of Rice University researchers who have created hybrid carbon nanotube metal oxide arrays as electrode mater...

9 Feb 2009

Pushing Carbon Nanotubes Close to Breaking Point Increases Current-Carrying Capacity

By pushing carbon nanotubes close to their breaking point, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a remarkable increase in the current-carrying capacity of the nanotubes, well beyond what was previously thought possible.

9 Feb 2009

IMEC Matures its Flexible Radios in Deep Sub-Micron Digital CMOS

With the launch of its single-chip reconfigurable receiver achieving industry state-of-the-art performance, IMEC matures its flexible radios in deep sub-micron digital CMOS to ease the implementation of both the analog and the digital functionality into the same system-on-chip (SoC).

From IMEC 9 Feb 2009

Dietary Supplements Made with Nanotechnology Raising Growing Concerns

An increase in the number of dietary supplements made with nanoparticles - so called "nanoceuticals" - is raising growing concerns about their potential for toxicity in the wake of little government oversight, ...

9 Feb 2009

Nanowire Lasers Setting World Record in Wavelength Tunability

A single semiconductor laser chip with world-record wavelength tuning range of 200 nanometers - from 500 to 700 nanometers - has been demonstrated by a research team led by Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University.

8 Feb 2009

The Largest and Most Anticipated Nanotechnology Event in North America

We are just three months away from Nanotech 2009 Conference & Expo in Houston, Texas. We have received a record number of business and technical submissions for our conference program, which is a clear indication that the event will be an even bigger success than it was last year in Boston.

7 Feb 2009