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NanoIntegris Announces Sale of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

NanoIntegris, an Illinois-based nanomaterials startup company, announced today that it has begun selling samples of its metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), which the company has labeled I...

From NanoIntegris Technologies, Inc. 28 Oct 2008

Measuring Tiny Amounts of Mass with Atomic Precision

A group of researchers led by Adrian Bachtold of the CIN2 laboratory in Spain has developed an ultrasensitive mass sensor, which can measure tiny amounts of mass with atomic precision, and with an unprecedented resolution to date.

28 Oct 2008

Noninvasive Tool to Study Carbon Nanotubes Targeting Tumors In Vivo

Carbon nanotubes have significant potential for delivering both imaging and therapeutic agents to tumors, but there is still a need to better quantify how well these rolled-up sheets of graphite can target tumors. Now, t...

28 Oct 2008

New Strategies to Exploit Electrocatalytic Properties and High Surface Area of Graphene Sheets

Graphene is the latest nanoscale form of carbon to be discovered and it is currently the hottest topic in condensed matter physics and materials science due to its novel electronic properties. An important feature of graphene, which has not been exploited so far, has been its edges, where interesting electrocatalytic properties and sites for functionalization can develop.

22 Oct 2008

Secret Lives of Carbon Nanotubes

The recent advent of transmission electron microscopes with integrated scanning probe microscope sample stages is permitting unprecedented nanoscale observation and analysis of materials. Jianyu Huang of Sandia National ...

21 Oct 2008

Dazzling Photo of Marine Diatoms Wins 2008 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

With the appearance of gracefully swooping beams of light or a colorful array of feathers, a dazzling photo of Pleurosigma (marine diatoms) has won the 2008 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Michael Stringe...

17 Oct 2008

World's First Color Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrophoretic Display

Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that Samsung Electronics is demonstrating the world's first carbon nanotube-based color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper at the International Meeting on Information Display (iMiD) at KINTEX, Ilsan, Korea from October 13th through October 17th.

16 Oct 2008

Buckypapers Clarify Optical and Electrical Behavior of Nanotubes

Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes-sorted by centrifuge for length-materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some of the most precise measurements yet of the concentrations at which delicate mats of nanotubes become transparent, conducting sheets.

15 Oct 2008

Company Recognized for Leadership in Nanomaterials and Component Technology

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy-saving component products and performance materials, today announced it has received the 2008 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for materials and base tech...

From Huntsman International LLC 14 Oct 2008

Carbon Nanotube-Based Material Creating Directionally-Varied Adhesive Force

The race for the best "gecko foot" dry adhesive got a new competitor this week with a stronger and more practical material reported in the journal Science by a team of researchers from four U.S. institutions.

10 Oct 2008