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New Study Shows Cytotoxicity of Carbon Nanotubes

Owing to the novel properties of carbon nanotubes (CBNs), a series of problems associated with in vitro toxicity assessments of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have appeared in many literatures. In order to properly evaluate ...

22 Dec 2008

Bayer MaterialScience Receive EPA Approval for its Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

This enables the company to sell Baytubes® on the American market and reinforces Bayer MaterialScience's role as one of the world's leading manufacturers of carbon nanotubes.

From Covestro AG 22 Dec 2008

Carbon Nanotubes the Ideal "Smart" Brain Material

Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal "smart" brain material. Their results, published December 21 in the advance online edition of the journal Na...

22 Dec 2008

Engineering Professor Selected to Develop Nanomanufacturing Curriculum

Sarah Leach, an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology at South Bend, is one of 25 faculty nationwide selected as a field-test instructor as part of a National Science Foundation project to develop curr...

21 Dec 2008

New Market Research Report on the World's Nanomaterial's Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Nanotechnology industry is available in its catalogue. World Nanomaterials Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p098289/World-Nanomaterials-Market...

21 Dec 2008

Flaws May Hold Key to Designing The Perfect Nanoelectric Circuit from Carbon Nanotubes

The paradox of perfection – that flaws make things perfect – could be the key to designing nanoelectronic circuits from carbon nanotubes, according to US scientists. They have discovered that a circuit of nan...

21 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology Researchers Elected to World's Largest Scientific Body

Five Brown University faculty have been awarded the distinction of fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The new fellows, among 486 chosen from the AAAS membership this year, include...

18 Dec 2008

Sandia Researchers Create "Jumbo Carbon Nanotube"

A jumbo nanotube, like a jumbo shrimp, sounds contradictory. A giant lightweight carbon nanotube with good strength and electrical properties is desirable, all right.

From Sandia National Laboratories 18 Dec 2008

New Centrifugation Method Capable of Separating Carbon Nanotubes

Double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) can be separated from mixtures of single- (SWNTs) and multiwalled nanotubes (MWNTs) by using a centrifugation method recently developed at Northwestern University

18 Dec 2008

Printing Circuited Lattices of Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon it using a potentially inexpensive low-temperature process.

17 Dec 2008