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Conductive Carbon Nanotube-coated "Smart Yarn" to Detect Blood and Monitor Health

A carbon nanotube-coated "smart yarn" that conducts electricity could be woven into soft fabrics that detect blood and monitor health, engineers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated.

15 Dec 2008

Adding Salt and Nanoparticles as Alternative Energy Source

Instead of fossil fuels going in your gas tank, how about adding a pinch of salt? That may be the case in the future as a new process is under development to convert a type of salt into a biofuel. New properties of im...

14 Dec 2008

New Applications of Graphene Attract Large Grants form EPSRC

Five-year grants totalling £20m will be given to Bath, Imperial, London School of Economics, Edinburgh, Exeter, Heriot-Watt, Lancaster, Manchester and Strathclyde Universities as a result of the EPSRC 2008 Science ...

14 Dec 2008

Novel X-Ray Technique Allows Never Seen Before Observation of Molecular Motion

A novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. Result...

14 Dec 2008

Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaic Materials Markets to Worth $2.4 Billion by 2011

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced it has released an updated analysis of the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) and organic photovoltaics (OPV) materials markets. Although projected gro...

11 Dec 2008

Research May Lead to a New Class of Specialty Plastics

Tomorrow's specialty plastics may be produced more precisely and cheaply thanks to the apparently tight merger of a theory by a University of Oregon chemist and years of unexplained data from real world experiments involving polymers in Europe.

11 Dec 2008

Detailed Survey on the Chinese Ingot and Wafer Manufacturers Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Chinese Ingot and Wafer Manufacturers Market Survey - 2nd Edition" report to their offering. As China makes its presence felt in the solar photovoltai...

10 Dec 2008

University of Delaware Launches Fuel Cell Center

The University of Delaware has established the Center for Fuel Cell Research (CFCR) to improve the understanding of fuel cells and address critical issues and barriers to commercialization.

10 Dec 2008

Thin Films Research Receives Award from U.S. Air Force

The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded Shashank Priya, associate professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, a $100,000, three-year renewable grant to conduct...

10 Dec 2008

Company’s Proprietary Single-Junction III-V Structures Have the Potential to Achieve Higher Efficiency

Kopin® Corp. (NASDAQ: KOPN) today announced that it has been selected for award of a $600,000 NASA contract to produce nanostructured solar cells comprised of indium gallium phosphide (InGaP) materials. The goal of t...

10 Dec 2008