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Selah Technologies Receives Patent for Carbon Nanotube Production

Selah Technologies, an advanced materials manufacturer, announced today that it has received a patent covering the carbon single wall nanotube enrichment process to produce Selah Tubes(TM). Selah has the worldwide exclusive license for US Patent No. 7,374,685 from Clemson University.

18 Jun 2008

New Methods for Measuring Biological Activity of Nanomaterials

As researchers develop an ever-expanding toolkit of nanoparticles for use as drug and imaging agent delivery vehicles, there is a growing need to understand how a given nanoparticle's physical and chemical properties...

17 Jun 2008

Companies Aim to Make Solar Energy Affordable and Easy to Use

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. and IBM are collaborating to establish new, low-cost methods for bringing the next generation of solar energy products to market -- products that will be more affordable and easier to install t...

17 Jun 2008

Quantum Dot Distribution Agreement Between Nanoco and KISCO

Nanoco Technologies and KISCO Ltd will be shaping the future together with the signing of a distribution agreement appointing KISCO as the exclusive Asian distributor of Nanoco’s advanced quantum dots materials

12 Jun 2008

Cheap and Efficient Solar Cells with PbSe Quantum Dot Photovoltaics

For solar cells to be useful, they need to be cheap, cover a large area, and be physically flexible, which are benefits of using solution-processed photovoltaics. Much of the current research in solution-processed photov...

11 Jun 2008

Research Shows the Movement of Nanoparticles Through a Model Food Chain

New research shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred was relatively low and there was no evidence of the nanomaterials concentrating in the higher level organisms. The preliminary results observed by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) suggest that the particular nanomaterials studied may not accumulate in invertebrate food chains

2 Jun 2008

Nanoscience, Neuroscience and Astrophysics Pioneers Win Inaugural Kavli Prize

Seven pioneering scientists who have transformed human knowledge in the fields of nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics have become the first recipients of the million-dollar Kavli prizes. The laureates were sele...

29 May 2008

Chemically Synthesized Quantum Dots with Real World Applications in Electronics

New study shows how quantum dots can be chemically synthesized and tuned for use in a range of real world electronic and medical applications

13 May 2008

Advances in Data Storage and Quantum Computing to Come From Simulation That Shows How Graphene Can Form Iridium Muffins

Graphene flakes are notoriously difficult to work with. Still, they are stronger than diamond, better heat-shedders and conductors than silicon, and thought to have great potential in the worlds of microelectronics and sensors. If only they could be tamed.

30 Apr 2008

Pancreatic Cancer Revealed Using Nanosized Rods

Quantum dots have shown promise as ultrabright contrast agents for use in a variety of cancer imaging studies. Now, a team of investigators at the Multifunctional Nanoparticles in Diagnosis and Therapy of Pancreatic Canc...

21 Apr 2008