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Solar Cells With Low Cost and High Efficiency May Arise From Breakthroughs With Nanowires

Nanowires found to be able to trap more sunlight and convert it to electricity more efficiently than traditional solar cells

29 Jan 2008

Carbon Nanotubes Strong Future in Micro Electronics Proven by use in New Kind of Transistor Radio

Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it. The nanotube radios, in which nanotube devices provide al...

29 Jan 2008

Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program to Give Grants for Nanotechnology Development for the Environment and Health

Americans are famous for building big: the tallest sky scraper, the biggest jet, the widest plasma TV screen. But now U.S. entrepreneurs are considering thinking small. Nanotechnology uses particles 80,000 times smaller ...

29 Jan 2008

Quantum Dot Blinking Problem Solved by Scientists and May Lead to Source of Single Photons for Quantum Encryption

JILA scientists have found a way to suppress the blinking problem in quantum dots by bathing them in a chemical solution.

24 Jan 2008

Carbon Nanotubes Aligned by Capillary Action

Carbon nanotubes are attractive candidates for use as the active elements in the next generation of electronic devices. However, it has proven incredibly difficult to align nanotubes within device architectures. Most of ...

24 Jan 2008

Calcifying Nanoparticles Shown to be Associated With Aortic Stenosis, the Leading Cause of Heart Valve Replacement

Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc. announces the multicenter publication of independent research which reports an association between calcifying nanoparticles (CNPs) and aortic stenosis. Aortic stenosis represents the most fre...

23 Jan 2008

Green Nanotech Investments Making Good Financial Returns for Investors

Saving the planet is a hot topic, especially when the planet is warming and oil is percolating around $100 a barrel. And that means greener nanotechnology applications, such as ultracapacitors, lithium titanate batteries...

23 Jan 2008

TEAM 0.5, the World's Best Transmission Electron Microscope, has been Installed at the National Center for Electron Microscopy.

TEAM 0.5 (Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope) the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope is capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution, less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom

23 Jan 2008

Carbon Nanotube Array is Darkest Material Ever Created and Could Revolutionise Solar Energy

A thin coating comprised of low-density arrays of loosely vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light and one day could be used to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of solar energy conversion, infrared sensors, and other devices

23 Jan 2008

Drug Delivery Method Developed That is Invisible to the Immune System

Using nanotechnology, scientists from UCLA and Northwestern University have developed a localized and controlled drug delivery method that is invisible to the immune system, a discovery that could provide newer and more ...

23 Jan 2008

Nanomaterials News

Solar Cells With Low Cost and High Efficiency May Arise From Breakthroughs With Nanowires

Carbon Nanotubes Strong Future in Micro Electronics Proven by use in New Kind of Transistor Radio

Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program to Give Grants for Nanotechnology Development for the Environment and Health

Quantum Dot Blinking Problem Solved by Scientists and May Lead to Source of Single Photons for Quantum Encryption

Carbon Nanotubes Aligned by Capillary Action

Calcifying Nanoparticles Shown to be Associated With Aortic Stenosis, the Leading Cause of Heart Valve Replacement

Green Nanotech Investments Making Good Financial Returns for Investors

TEAM 0.5, the World's Best Transmission Electron Microscope, has been Installed at the National Center for Electron Microscopy.

Carbon Nanotube Array is Darkest Material Ever Created and Could Revolutionise Solar Energy

Drug Delivery Method Developed That is Invisible to the Immune System

Revolutionary Nanofibers Made from Flour for Tissue Regeneration

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

A Novel Approach to Enhancing Lithium-Ion Battery Performance with Graphene

Revolutionizing Polymer Science with a New Synthesis Method

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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