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Researchers Build Transistor Based on Carbon Nanotubes

ETH Zurich researchers have built a transistor whose crucial element is a carbon nano-tube, suspended between two contacts, with outstanding electronic properties. A novel fabrication approach allowed the scientists to construct a transistor with no gate hysteresis.

21 Jul 2010

Reactions Between Carbon Species and Tube Caps Affect Carbon Nanotube Growth and Electronic Properties

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are versatile nanomaterials made of rolled-up honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms. Depending on the direction and degree of twisting of these sheets, nanotubes can behave as meta...

20 Jul 2010

Sigma Aldrich Now Offers Greater Range of Nanotubes from SWeNT

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT), the leader in high quality, single-wall and specialty multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs), announces that Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) Materials Science is expanding its offering ...

From Sigma Aldrich 20 Jul 2010

Sugar-Coated Nanocapsule Delivers Large Doses of Radioactivity to Tumors

Starting with simple carbon nanotubes, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Spain has developed a sugar-coated nanocapsule that can deliver large doses of radioactivity to tumors. The researchers envision de...

16 Jul 2010

Solvay to Develop PEEK Products Using Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Compounds

Solvay Advanced Polymers, LLC is partnering with Entegris Inc.’s TEGO(TM) Polymers unit to develop and market advanced carbon nanotube-enhanced PEEK products suited for a range of emerging applications in the medic...

16 Jul 2010

New Publication on Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/421af7/nanostructured_mat) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology III, Volume 3...

16 Jul 2010

Nanotube Speakers Can Probe Ocean Depths

Speakers made from carbon nanotube sheets that are a fraction of the width of a human hair can both generate sound and cancel out noise -- properties ideal for submarine sonar to probe the ocean depths and make subs invisible to enemies.

15 Jul 2010

Breakthrough in Developing Quantum Nanowire

Rice University scientists have found the "ultimate" solvent for all kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a breakthrough that brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer.

15 Jul 2010

Physicists Explore Magnetic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But who knew magnets could stop those electrons in their track...

9 Jul 2010