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New Method to Electrically Characterize Individual Carbon Nanotubes

A single batch of carbon nanotubes -- molecular carbon cylinders that may one day revolutionize electronics engineering -- often includes more than 100 types of tubes, each with different optical and electrical properties. Individual electrical measurements of the molecules typically require such slow and expensive methods as electron-beam lithography.

15 Dec 2008

Chief Technology Officer of Applied Materials Awarded Prestigious 2008 J.J. Ebers Award

The IEEE Electron Devices Society today honored Dr. Mark Pinto, chief technology officer of Applied Materials, Inc., with its prestigious 2008 J.J. Ebers award, which is considered to be one of the technical community&#3...

From Applied Materials Inc. 15 Dec 2008

European Union Invests 2.6 million to Examine Saftey of Nanoparticle Products

Scientists are to examine the potential dangers of "nanoparticles" in everyday products such as sunscreen in a ?.6 million project funded by the European Union. Dr Anddrew Nelson, a chemist at the University of Leeds,...

15 Dec 2008

Comprehensive Market Report on Nanotechnology in the European Coatings Industry

Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/eedef6/nanotechnology_in) has announced the addition of the "Nanotechnology in the European Coatings Industry" report to their offering. The author is...

From Research and Markets 15 Dec 2008

Electron Tunneling Could Enable Nanomotors to Rotate Faster than their Biological Counterparts

Molecular dynamics simulations show that electron tunneling through nanoscale rotary motors based on carbon nanotube shafts may enable nanotech motors to rotate more than a million times faster than their biological coun...

15 Dec 2008

Overview of the Global Market for Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology continues to be a thriving area of R&D in 2008. Public funding of nanotechnology worldwide in 2008 was approximately $6.7 with over US$5 billion initially committed by the Russian government and a raft...

14 Dec 2008

Adding Salt and Nanoparticles as Alternative Energy Source

Instead of fossil fuels going in your gas tank, how about adding a pinch of salt? That may be the case in the future as a new process is under development to convert a type of salt into a biofuel. New properties of im...

14 Dec 2008

Discovery of Nano Rapid Transit System for Delivery of Nanoparticles

In 2004, Gunter Oberdorster and colleagues demonstrated that upon inhalation, ultrafine particles, the dimensions of which are measured in nanometers, can move from the nasal passages of rodents to the brain via a specia...

14 Dec 2008

Researchers Overcome Challenges with Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production

Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material

14 Dec 2008

Carbon Nanotube Sensor Capable of Seeking Out Cancer Cells in the Body

MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The sensors, made of carbon nanotubes wrapped in DNA, can detect chemotherapy drugs such a...

14 Dec 2008