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Nanotechnology Having Profound Impact on New Microscopy and Imaging Instrumentations

Nanotechnology is having a profound impact on new instrumentation for microscopy and imaging, driving next-generation technologies toward smaller footprints, sleeker profiles, more economical systems, and invigorating mi...

30 Jul 2008

Graphene is the Strongest Material Ever Measured

Research scientists at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest material ever measured.

23 Jul 2008

First STM Spectroscopy of Graphene Flakes Yields New Surprises

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of graphene flakes equipped with a "gate" electrode.

22 Jul 2008

IBM and ETH Zurich Announces Partnership in Nanotechnology

IBM and ETH Zurich, a premiere European science and engineering university, today announced the formation of a partnership in the field of nanotechnology. As part of this collaboration, a new nanotechnology laborator...

25 Jun 2008

Professor Achieves Breakthrough in Nanotechnology

A chemistry professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and his graduate students have published new results in Nature Nanotechnology showing how they isolated a particular type of carbon nanotube from a sample and manipulated it in a way that could have broad applicability in drug and gene delivery, electronic devices, and nanotechnology research.

21 Jun 2008

Smaller and Faster Computers From Carbon Nanoribbons

Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which...

29 May 2008

New Book on Nanotechnology and Nanotubes Set to Make the Complex World of the Super Small Easy to Understand

When Sandia's Francois Leonard explains the physics of carbon Leonard has written a book on the subject to be published later this summer

28 May 2008

Graphene Addition to Polymer Makes Nanocomposite Material That May Change Everything from Solar Cells to Aeroplanes

Researchers at Northwestern University and Princeton University have created a new kind of polymer that, because of its extraordinary thermal and mechanical properties, could be used in everything from airplanes to solar...

20 May 2008

Sandia Researcher Writes the Book on Carbon Nanotubes

Sandia National Laboratories is also in on the carbon nanotube game, with research led by physicist François Léonard. Léonard has considerable experience in the subject, so much that he wrote the book on it — literally. He’s the author of a forthcoming work, Physics of Carbon Nanotube Devices, which could become the definitive text on the topic.

From Sandia National Laboratories 1 May 2008

Graphene Based Devices Just a Couple of Years Away

Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced tiny liquid crystal devices with electrodes made from graphene – an exciting development that could lead to computer and TV displays based on this technolog...

1 May 2008