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Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material

Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro scale down to ...


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Carbon nanotubes are superior to metals for electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

In the quest to pack ever-smaller electronic devices more densely with integrated circuits, nanotechnology researchers keep running up against some unpleasant truths: higher current density induces electromigration ...


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Spinning carbon nanotubes spawns new wireless applications

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2

The University of Cincinnati has long been known for its world-record-breaking carbon nanotubes. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered new uses by spinning carbon nanotubes (CNTs) ...





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Carbon Nanotubes heralded as ideal candidates for next generation Nanoelectronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Widely regarded as the wonder material of the 21st century, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the intramolecular junctions that connect CNTs for integration have been hailed as the ideal candidates for the next ...


Carbon Nanotubes Help Fix Bones

Carbon Nanotubes Help Fix Bones

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 1

Healing a broken bone is a lengthy and awkward process. The current, most effective way to repair bone tissue is to ensure correct positioning of the bone during healing, usually by use of a plaster cast or ...


Study on cytotoxicity of carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Owing to the novel properties of carbon nanotubes (CBNs), a series of problems associated with in vitro toxicity assessments of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have appeared in many literatures. In order to properly evaluate the ...


Carbon nanomaterials may disperse more widely in waterways

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 04, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) released to the environment in the coming era of industrial-scale production could spread through lakes, rivers and other waterways more widely than previously anticipated, scientists are reporting ...


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New material could speed development of hydrogen powered vehicles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (54) | comments 21

Researchers in Greece report design of a new material that almost meets the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2010 goals for hydrogen storage and could help eliminate a key roadblock to practical hydrogen-powered ...


Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth

Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could have beneficial effects in agriculture.


Scientists Produce Carbon Nanotubes Using Commercially Available Polymeric Resins

Scientists produce carbon nanotubes using commercially available polymeric resins

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 1

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have successfully produced carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in high yields in bulk solid compositions using commercially available aromatic containing resins. The concentration ...


Researchers enlist DNA to bring carbon nanotubes' promise closer to reality

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A team of researchers from DuPont and Lehigh University has reported a breakthrough in the quest to produce carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that are suitable for use in electronics, medicine and other applications.


Carbon nanotubes could go antiballistic

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 0

CSIRO (Australia) has been granted $2 million under the Defence Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) Program to demonstrate the capabilities of carbon nanotubes as strong, lightweight antiballistic materials.


Researchers develop new method for producing transparent conductors

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at UCLA have developed a new method for producing a hybrid graphene-carbon nanotube, or G-CNT, for potential use as a transparent conductor in solar cells and consumer electronic devices. These ...



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