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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

NRC Declare Further Research Needed to Assess Risk of Nanotechnology

There are more than 700 products on the market today that are touched, worn and used -- ranging from cosmetics to electronics -- that involve nanomaterials. In the next decade a number of products, including food and med...

14 Dec 2008

Science and Technology in India Show Steady Growth In-spite of Recession

The technical sessions at the 2nd Bangalore Nano began today with the opening address by Professor C N R Rao, Chairman of the Science Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister of India, followed by highlight lectures and ...

11 Dec 2008

Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaic Materials Markets to Worth $2.4 Billion by 2011

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced it has released an updated analysis of the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) and organic photovoltaics (OPV) materials markets. Although projected gro...

11 Dec 2008

New Report Provides Assessment of Industrial Applications for Nanoscale Coatings

Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Market Assessment on Nanocoatings" report to their offering. This new report provides an assessment of industrial applications for nanoscale coatings. Nan...

From Research and Markets 11 Dec 2008