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Tool For Evaluating and Addressing Potential Risks Of Nanomaterials Released By DuPont and Environmental Defense

DuPont and Environmental Defense today released a comprehensive framework to assist with the responsible development and use of nanotechnology and to help inform global dialogue on its potential risks. The Nano Risk Fram...

22 Jun 2007

Nanotube Innovations Amongst Bayer's Showcase for K 2007

From October 24 to 31, 2007, Bayer Material Science will be presenting a large number of innovative developments at the world’s biggest plastics exhibition, K 2007, in Düsseldorf. Covering over 1,000 square me...

20 Jun 2007

Nanotube Based Adhesive Stickier Than A Gecko's Foot

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron have take...

19 Jun 2007

Bacteria Ferry Nanoparticles Into Cells For Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease

Researchers at Purdue University have shown that common bacteria can deliver a valuable cargo of "smart nanoparticles" into a cell to precisely position sensors, drugs or DNA for the early diagnosis and treatme...

14 Jun 2007

Method for Designing Circuits Using Twisted and Misaligned Nanotubes

Concerned that current methods for making computer chips might become stymied as components keep shrinking, many engineers are looking for circuit building blocks with improved electrical properties. Among the most promi...

9 Jun 2007

Observing Quantum Transactions on a Single Carbon Nanotube

In the quantum world, photons and electrons dance, bump and carry out transactions that govern everything we see in the world around us. In this week's issue of Science, French and U.S. scientists describe a new tech...

8 Jun 2007

EU Prefers an Incremental Approach to Regulating Nanotechnology

The 'incremental approach' to regulating nanotechnology, rather than a new regulatory framework, would be the EU's optimum approach to protecting both the health of its citizens and that of the environment, a...

8 Jun 2007

New Method for Compacting Carbon Nanotubes into Tight Bundles

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method of compacting carbon nanotubes into dense bundles. These tightly packed bundles are efficient conductors and could one day replace copper as the...

7 Jun 2007

Emerging Nanotech Project's Online Inventory Highlighted in Consumer Report

The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Wilson Center’s Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) launched the world’s first on...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 5 Jun 2007

High Strength, Low Density Aerogels Made from Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created low-density aerogels made from carbon nanotubes, CNTs, that are capable of supporting 8,000 times their own weight. The new material also combines the strength a...

22 May 2007