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New Way to Manufacture One of the Important Building Blocks of Nanotechnology

McGill researchers have succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, one of the important building blocks of the nanotechnology of the future. Their building material? Biological DNA. A team of research...

12 Apr 2009

Metal Hydride Particle Bringing Hydrogen Cars Closer to Reality

Purdue Researchers have developed a critical part of a hydrogen storage system for cars that makes it possible to fill up a vehicle's fuel tank within five minutes with enough hydrogen to drive 300 miles.

11 Apr 2009

Solar Thin Films Acquires BudaSolar Technologies

Solar Thin Films, Inc. (OTC BB:SLTN.OB) today announced that it and its subsidiary, KRAFT Elektronikai Zrt.. of Budapest, Hungary, has agreed to acquire BudaSolar Technologies Co. Ltd., also of Budapest, Hungary, in a tr...

10 Apr 2009

Indium Tin Oxide Revenues to Expect Reach $8.3 Billion by 2014

Indium tin oxide (ITO), with all of its faults and inadequacies, will continue to dominate the transparent conductor industry for the foreseeable future, according to NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm based here. Th...

9 Apr 2009

Cytec Industries and IMEC Announces Partnership to Increase Lifetime of Organic Photovoltaics

Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE:CYT), a global leader in specialty chemicals and materials, and IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute will work together to develop a commercially viable technology for organic photovoltaic devices with enhanced stability and extended lifetime.

From IMEC 9 Apr 2009

iTi Solar Named IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe Award 2009 Finalist

iTi Solar, a manufacturer dedicated to advancing the economics of clean, renewable energy through the use of industrial inkjet technologies, today announced that its Solar Materials Deposition System (MDS) was named as a...

8 Apr 2009

Chrysler Selects A123Systems Batteries for New Line of Electric and Hybrid Cars

Auto manufacturer Chrysler said this week it has chosen A123Systems, a Watertown company based on technology developed at MIT, to make batteries for its new Envi line of electric and hybrid cars. A123Systems was co-fo...

From Wanxiang A123 Systems Corp 8 Apr 2009

Using an Ancient Life Form to Create One of the Newest Technologies for Solar Energy

Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to use an ancient life form to create one of the newest technologies for solar energy, in systems that may be surprisingly simple to build compared to existing s...

8 Apr 2009

New High-Energy Cathode Material Greatly Increases Safety and Life-Span of Future Lithium Batteries

A new high-energy cathode material that can greatly increase the safety and extend the life-span of future lithium batteries has been developed through the close international collaboration of researchers led by the U.S....

7 Apr 2009

Groundbreaking "Nanofarming" Technology that Safely Harvests Oil from Algae

Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University have developed groundbreaking "nanofarming" technology that safely harvests oil from the algae so the pond-based "crop" can keep on producing.

7 Apr 2009