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Rice Scientists Create Video of Bending and Flexing Carbon Nanotubes

The wiggling rainbows are pretty to look at, and what they represent is certainly intriguing. Rice scientists have created a video of bending and flexing carbon nanotubes to show once-undetectable characteristics that may someday be tuned for medical and industrial use.

31 Aug 2009

Killing Kidney Tumors with Nanotubes

By injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, a multi-institutional team of researchers from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSOM...

28 Aug 2009

Metal Catalysts Used to Create Carbon Nanotubes Can Block Key Signaling Pathway in Neurons

Carbon nanotubes hold many exciting possibilities, some of them in the realm of the human nervous system. Recent research has shown that carbon nanotubes may help regrow nerve tissue or ferry drugs used to repair damaged neurons associated with disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and perhaps even paralysis.

27 Aug 2009

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Introduces SWeNT CG 200

SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT), a leading developer and manufacturer of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNT) and Specialty Multiwall Nanotubes, today introduced its newest, most electrically conductive grade of SWCNT...

27 Aug 2009

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Establishes Carbon Nanotube Coatings Center

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. (SWeNT), in partnership with Chasm Technologies, Inc. (Chasm), a consulting firm specializing in nanomaterials and thin film coating + patterning, have established a carbon nanotube coatings application development center at Chasm's facility located in the Boston area.

26 Aug 2009

Researchers Using Carbon Nanotubes with Gold as Imaging Agent to Detect Tumor Cells

Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent that is capable of molecular mapping of lymphatic endothelial cells and detecting cancer metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes.

26 Aug 2009

Second-Round Venture Capital for Silicon-Friendly Carbon Nanotube Growth Process

Surrey NanoSystems has secured second round funding of £2.5 million (~US$4.2m) from Octopus Ventures, IP Group, The University of Surrey and other investors. The capital will help to commercialize an innovative low...

From Surrey Nanosystems 24 Aug 2009

Nanocyl Showcases Benefits of CNTs at Nanotechnology Conference

Nanocyl, a leading global manufacturer of specialty and industrial carbon nanotubes, announced today it will showcase the performance and cost-competitive benefits of its CNTs for cutting-edge conductive plastic applications at Nano Korea 2009, from August 26-28, in Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.

From NANOCYL SA 24 Aug 2009

Carbon Nanotube Sensor Revealing Nitric Oxide's Role in Living Cells

A new carbon nanotube sensor developed at MIT is the first sensor that can reversibly detect nitric oxide. Monitoring nitric oxide levels in living cells, in real time, could help researchers figure out its role in cancer and other diseases.

21 Aug 2009

Researchers Destroy Prostate Cancer Tumors with Specially-Coated Miniscule Carbon Tubes

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have destroyed prostate cancer tumors in mice by injecting them with specially-coated, miniscule carbon tubes and then superheating the tubes with a brief zap of a...

19 Aug 2009

Carbon Nanotubes News

Rice Scientists Create Video of Bending and Flexing Carbon Nanotubes

Killing Kidney Tumors with Nanotubes

Metal Catalysts Used to Create Carbon Nanotubes Can Block Key Signaling Pathway in Neurons

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Introduces SWeNT CG 200

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Establishes Carbon Nanotube Coatings Center

Researchers Using Carbon Nanotubes with Gold as Imaging Agent to Detect Tumor Cells

Second-Round Venture Capital for Silicon-Friendly Carbon Nanotube Growth Process

Nanocyl Showcases Benefits of CNTs at Nanotechnology Conference

Carbon Nanotube Sensor Revealing Nitric Oxide's Role in Living Cells

Researchers Destroy Prostate Cancer Tumors with Specially-Coated Miniscule Carbon Tubes

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