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Nanopantography Technique May Make LCD Screens Obselete In Favour of Field Emission Displays or FEDs

Although relatively new to the market, liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions may soon be obsolete, thanks to a new technique created by University of Houston professors. Vincent Donnelly, Demetre Economou and Paul ...

6 Sep 2007

Nanoparticle Characterisation Company's Angel Investor Round Oversubscribed

NanoSight Limited, the nanoparticle characterisation company, announces the completion of an angel investor round that increases its shareholder base and complements previous investments by Venture Capital companies, inc...

5 Sep 2007

Bayer Open Another Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Facility

Bayer MaterialScience AG is opening a second production facility for Baytubes®, its carbon nanotubes, at H.C. Starck GmbH in the town of Laufenburg on the German-Swiss border. The new facility has an annual capacity ...

From Covestro AG 5 Sep 2007

Better Methods of Making CNTs More Predictable

Imagine using minuscule structures the size of molecules to harvest sunlight and convert it into electricity. Or employing the same structures to store hydrogen fuel so that it fits into a car’s gas tank. Or replac...

5 Sep 2007

Nanotailor License NASA TEchnology to Commercially Produce Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

A NASA-developed innovative process is making waves in the nanotechnology field and spurring the development of new companies in the process. A new company based in Austin, Texas, Nanotailor, has licensed NASA Goddard Sp...

5 Sep 2007

Is Length Really Important - Apparently It is if you are a Carbon Nanotube wanting to Absorb Light

If you want to exploit the ability of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to absorb, fluoresce and scatter light, take the advice of a sandlot quarterback and “go long.” In the Aug. 29, 2007, issue of ...

5 Sep 2007

CHF 1 Million Balzan Prize Awarded for Nanoscience

One of the four International Balzan Prizes 2007, which have a prize fund of CHF 1 million (EUR 610 thousand), is to be awarded for research in the area of nanoscience to Sumio Iijima, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. ...

4 Sep 2007

Nanoparticles Aid Processing of PBT Plastics

Slim, elegant and casual it rests on its inclined legs. Its creator enjoys worldwide acclaim, its forerunners are design icons: the object of interest is the "Myto" cantilever chair – the brainchild of mu...

4 Sep 2007

Low Volume Cuvette Allows the Malvern Zetasizer Nano to Analyse Proteins

A new low volume disposable polystyrene cuvette for the Malvern Panalytical® Zetasizer Nano S and ZS particle characterization systems enables the size measurement of as little as 40 microlitres of sample. This is le...

From Malvern Panalytical 4 Sep 2007

Cysteine Lead Nanowires That Look Like Nano Dandelions Show New Way To Produce Ordered Nanostructures On A Large Scale At Room Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure

Under an electron microscope they look like dandelions. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Xiao-Fang Shen and Xiu-Ping Yan explain their nanoscopic bouquets: They consist of spread-out bundles of nanowires made of lead an...

4 Sep 2007

Nanomaterials News

Nanopantography Technique May Make LCD Screens Obselete In Favour of Field Emission Displays or FEDs

Nanoparticle Characterisation Company's Angel Investor Round Oversubscribed

Bayer Open Another Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Facility

Better Methods of Making CNTs More Predictable

Nanotailor License NASA TEchnology to Commercially Produce Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Is Length Really Important - Apparently It is if you are a Carbon Nanotube wanting to Absorb Light

CHF 1 Million Balzan Prize Awarded for Nanoscience

Nanoparticles Aid Processing of PBT Plastics

Low Volume Cuvette Allows the Malvern Zetasizer Nano to Analyse Proteins

Cysteine Lead Nanowires That Look Like Nano Dandelions Show New Way To Produce Ordered Nanostructures On A Large Scale At Room Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure

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

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

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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