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Researchers Grow Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Prespecified Structure

In future, it will be possible to specifically equip carbon nanotubes with properties which they need for electronic applications, for example. Researchers at Empa in Dübendorf/Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart have succeeded for the first time in growing single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with only a single, prespecified structure.

14 Aug 2014

Scientist Reviews Limiting Factors in Development of Computing Systems

From their origins in the 1940s as sequestered, room-sized machines designed for military and scientific use, computers have made a rapid march into the mainstream, radically transforming industry, commerce, entertainment and governance while shrinking to become ubiquitous handheld portals to the world.

14 Aug 2014

Using Molecular Seeds To Synthesize Pure Carbon Nanotubes

Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are typically 1nm in diameter and exhibit drastic changes in their electronic properties even if their structure undergoes the slightest change. Hence, making structurally homogeneous SWCNTs is the subject of intense research.

8 Aug 2014

Lasers and Carbon Nanotubes Help Look at Blood Flowing Through Living Brain

A team of Stanford scientists has developed an entirely non-invasive technique that provides a view of blood flow in the brain. The tool could provide powerful insights into strokes and possibly Alzheimer's disease.

8 Aug 2014

New Report on Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and 2-D Nanomaterials Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market For Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene And Other 2-D Nanomaterials" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 7 Aug 2014

F Cubed Receives Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Leadership

Based on its recent analysis of the methillicin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes F Cubed, LLC. with the 2014 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Leadership. F Cubed's portable device, the NESDEP IU, can rapidly and cost-effectively screen patients suspected of having contracted MRSA.

From Frost and Sullivan 6 Aug 2014

Teenage Girls Get Introduced to Nanotechnology and Carbon Nanotubes at UT Dallas

Twenty Dallas-area teenage girls recently got hands-on experience with nanotechnology, robots, virtual reality, forensics and space science when they visited UT Dallas for a weeklong summer camp.

1 Aug 2014

Mechanical Forces Direct Nanostructures to Form Complex 3D Microstructures

A team of researchers has created a new way of manufacturing microstructured surfaces that have novel three-dimensional textures. These surfaces, made by self-assembly of carbon nanotubes, could exhibit a variety of useful properties — including controllable mechanical stiffness and strength, or the ability to repel water in a certain direction.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 30 Jul 2014

DNA-Wrapped Carbon Nanotube Can Detect Cancers Before Metastasization

Since they were first developed a quarter-century ago, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have impressed scientists with their mechanical strength and stiffness, their optical performance, and their ability to conduct heat and electricity.

24 Jul 2014

New 'Super Black' Material

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Enersys' ABSL Space Products division have worked alongside Surrey NanoSystems to help them develop a new 'super black' material, Vantablack®.

22 Jul 2014