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El-Mul Discovery Will Allow Commercial Development of E-Beam On-a-Chip Carbon Nanotube Based Field Emission Device

El-Mul Technologies announced that it has gained critical knowledge that will allow commercial manufacture of its proprietary E-Beam On-a-Chip™ carbon nanotube (CNT) based field emission device.

30 May 2008

Nanomanufacturing Center Develops Revolutionary Technology for Nanoscale Assembly at Wafer Level

Researchers at the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern University, with partners UMass Lowell and University of New Hampshire, have discovered an innovative ...

30 May 2008

Japanese Nanotechnology Researchers Create World's Smallest Noodle Bowl

Using carbon nanotube fabrication technology for manufacturing advanced circuitry, University of Tokyo professor Masayuki Nakao, created a 1 micron wide bowl filled with 20 nanometer thick noodles

30 May 2008

Swedish Nanotechnology Researchers Make Complex Nanostructures With Laser Light

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden have reported that a single laser pulse can create complex, ordered nanostructure systems. This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an ...

29 May 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

Measuring Technique Details Characteristics of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatments

A measuring procedure developed in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) can help to investigate in some detail the behaviour of magnetic nanoparticles which are used for cancer therapy. Magnetic nanoparticl...

29 May 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

Amyloids Have Have Potential as a Nanomaterials

Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as BSE. However, amyloids are not just pathological substances; they have potential as a nanomaterials.

29 May 2008

Nanotechnology and Nanofiber Fabrics Rendering Toxic Chemicals Harmless

Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts. Potential applicati...

28 May 2008

Unifying Theory of Lasers Advanced by Physicists

Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in Science

28 May 2008