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How Seeds Exposed to Carbon Nanotubes Sprouted Up to Two Times Faster

A collaborative team of UALR plant biologists and nanotechnologists have demonstrated how seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes in the agar medium sprouted up to two times faster than control seed, a growth enhancement that has enormous potential on agriculture as well as plant-based biofuel production.

28 Oct 2009

Collaboration Leverages Baytubes Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Response to Customer Demand for Improved Composites

Bayer MaterialScience LLC, one of the world's leading suppliers of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, will collaborate with Nanoledge Inc., a leading innovative epoxy resin formulator, to provide a full range of high-per...

28 Oct 2009

Carbon Nanotubes Offering a Surprising Hydrogen Storage Solution

Hydrogen fuel, because its only byproduct is steam, should be the ultimate in green alternatives to fossil fuels, but it hasn't delivered on its promise yet because of one enormous stumbling block, storage. Now a tea...

27 Oct 2009

Inhaling Carbon Nanotubes Can Affect Outer Lining of the Lung

Carbon nanotubes are being considered for use in everything from sports equipment to medical applications, but a great deal remains unknown about whether these materials cause respiratory or other health problems. Now a ...

25 Oct 2009

Carbon Nanotube Boosting Efficiency of Electric Propulsion Systems

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems used to control the positions of satellites and planetary probes.

21 Oct 2009

CNano Receives ISO 9001:2008 Certification and Signs Distribution Agreement

CNano Technology Limited (CNano) announced that it received a certificate of registration for the International Standard ISO 9001:2008 for R+D, production and services of carbon nanotubes through its subsidiary in China. The ISO 9001 quality standard is the most widely recognized and established quality management system framework in the world.

20 Oct 2009

Creating Inexpensive and Efficient Solar Cells from Carbon Nanotubes

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying how to create inexpensive, efficient solar cells from carbon nanotubes, which are sheets of carbon rolled into seamless cylinders 1-nanometer in diameter.

20 Oct 2009

Researchers Found Way to Control Structure and Function of Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes hold promise for delivering medicine directly to a tumor; acting as sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron; replacing costly platinum in fuel cells; or as energy-saving transistors and wires, but building them with the right structure has been a challenge.

15 Oct 2009

Global Market for Nanotubes

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of new report "The Global Market for Nanotubes to 2015: A Realistic Assessment " to their o...

From Research and Markets 12 Oct 2009

Discovery Offers New Insight into the Growth of Graphene Layers

Researchers analyzing the assembly of graphene (sheets of carbon only one atom thick) on a surface of iridium have found that the sheets grow by first forming tiny carbon domes. The discovery offers new insight into the growth of graphene layers and points the way to possible methods for assembling components of graphene-based computer circuits.

12 Oct 2009