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Method for Designing Circuits Using Twisted and Misaligned Nanotubes

Concerned that current methods for making computer chips might become stymied as components keep shrinking, many engineers are looking for circuit building blocks with improved electrical properties. Among the most promi...

9 Jun 2007

QUT Microgravity Tower Will Allow Unique Study of Nanomaterials

Scientists from NASA, Europe and Australia will beat a path to Queensland University of Technology's Carseldine campus when the southern hemisphere's only microgravity tower is completed later this year. The ...

9 Jun 2007

MU Researchers To Examine Environmental, Health Effects of Silver Nanoparticles

Realize it or not, it's a nano world. Many everyday consumer items now utilize the emerging science of nanotechnology, and so, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia will examine whether the technology po...

9 Jun 2007

Copernicus Therapeutics Apply DNA Nanoparticle Technology to siRNA

Copernicus Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that at the American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT) Meeting held in Seattle, Washington, Copernicus showed that the methods used to produce DNA nanoparticles were also very e...

9 Jun 2007

Observing Quantum Transactions on a Single Carbon Nanotube

In the quantum world, photons and electrons dance, bump and carry out transactions that govern everything we see in the world around us. In this week's issue of Science, French and U.S. scientists describe a new tech...

8 Jun 2007

Fluorescent Carbon Nanotubes for Medical Applications

In a way, nanotubes are nature’s smallest candles. These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human hair....

8 Jun 2007

EU Prefers an Incremental Approach to Regulating Nanotechnology

The 'incremental approach' to regulating nanotechnology, rather than a new regulatory framework, would be the EU's optimum approach to protecting both the health of its citizens and that of the environment, a...

8 Jun 2007

New Method for Compacting Carbon Nanotubes into Tight Bundles

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method of compacting carbon nanotubes into dense bundles. These tightly packed bundles are efficient conductors and could one day replace copper as the...

7 Jun 2007

Emerging Nanotech Project's Online Inventory Highlighted in Consumer Report

The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Wilson Center’s Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) launched the world’s first on...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 5 Jun 2007

Consumer Report Focusses on Nanotech Products

The July 2007 issue of Consumer Reports features an article on the growing number of nanotechnology consumer products on the market-everything from washing machines and golf clubs to tooth brushes and car wax. It describ...

5 Jun 2007