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- A nanotechnology award for NASA
- NASA is rarely associated with nanotechnologies. But one of its researchers working at the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center just received a Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 award for a manufacturing process for high-quality carbon nanotubes CNTs. Because of its ability to produce bundles of CNTs without using a metal catalyst,...
- Tags: Nanotube, NASA, Carbon Nanotube, Manufacturing, CNT, Metal Catalyst, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- How radio waves really can kill cancer
- When I first read this I thought it was crazy, but it's not. Scientists at Rice University and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are injecting carbon nanotubes into tumors, then hitting the tumors with radio waves. Lead scientist Steven Curley of M.D....
- Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Radio, Scientist, Carbon Nanotube, Cancer, Nanotechnology, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Repelling bullets with nanotube armors
- Australian engineers have found a way to use the elasticity of carbon nanotubes to not only stop bullets penetrating material but actually rebound their force. Their anti-ballistic carbon nanotubes are very different from the current materials used to design bullet-proof jackets, such as Kevlar, Twaron or Dyneema fibers. Current jackets...
- Tags: Nanotube, Bullet, Carbon Nanotube, Jacket, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Carbon Nanotube Bumps for Thermal and Electric Conduction in Transistor
- The continuous miniaturization of semiconductor chips has rapidly improved the performance of semiconductor products. However, thermal issues that affect semi- conductor chips are becoming more serious. For example, heat transfer has become a very serious problem in the CPUs of personal computers; high-frequency High-Power Amplifiers HPAs of mobile communication systems;...
- Tags: Nanotube, Mobile, Transistor, Carbon Nanotube, Fujitsu Ltd., Mobile Communication, Nanotechnology, Cellular Phones, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Filming nanotubes inside living animals
- A team of researchers at Rice University has filmed carbon nanotubes inside living animals. They've used a custom-built microscope and a technique called near-infrared fluorescent imaging to detect DNA-sized nanotubes inside living fruit flies. But more importantly, they've compared a group of fruit fly larvae fed with a yeast paste...
- Tags: Nanotube, Larva, Carbon Nanotube, Fruit Fly, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- The best of two nanoworlds
- As you probably know by now, carbon nanotubes show amazing mechanical strength, while metal nanowires show very interesting optical and electrical properties. Combining both has proved to be a challenge. But if it was possible, this would open the way to the use of carbon nanotubes in computer chips, displays...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Computers &, Internet, Wireless &, Telecom, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, carbon nanotube, nanotube
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- Piano nanowires
- Dutch researchers have made what they call the worlds smallest piano wire. In fact, these wires are made of carbon nanotubes measuring approximately 1 micrometer long and approximately 2 nanometers in diameter. After attaching these nanotubes to electrodes and applying alternating current of various frequencies, the nanotubes started to vibrate...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, nanotube
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Nanoknives to cut cells
- American researchers have built a carbon nanotube knife. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, this nanoknife will be used to cut and study cells. With this new tool, scientists and biologists will be able to make 3D images of cells and tissues for electron tomography, which...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, nanotube, NIST, carbon nanotube, MWCNT
- Blog posts 2006-11-24
- Future TVs may wed carbon nanotubes, LCDs
- Future TVs may wed carbon nanotubes, LCDsmass manufacturing of carbon nanotubesTo make carbon nanotubes of uniform length and defect free, employ nano bots, or build them to do so to carbon nanotubes. Making nanotubes is easy, so is making a lot of them, there are plenty in a candle...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, TV, LCD, nanotube, carbon nanotube
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- Carbon nanotubes enter the Tour de France
- Carbon nanotubes enter the Tour de FranceGreat, butcan you take it off any sweet jumps?Better Bikes Than Lance'sI am not so sure that Flyod is riding a legal UCI approved bike...There is a strict minimum bike weight of 6.8 kg for UCI-governed races. Many high-end off-the-shelf road bikes come in...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, carbon nanotube, nanotube, bicycle, bicycle bicycle, Bicycle Race Bicycle
- Discussion threads 2006-07-07
- Carbon nanotubes could allow for huge increases in storage
- Carbon nanotubes could allow for huge increases in storageOk, I can use a 5 TB hard drive right about nowI want this now!Reliability?Anyone have a subjective feeling that hard drives are less reliable now than they were when their capacities were smaller?Last year we had several maxtor diamond max 9s...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, carbon nanotube, nanotube, storage
- Discussion threads 2006-07-02
- Mixing brain cells and nanodots
- It's not the first time that animal brain cells have been used in conjunction with nanoparticles. But now, a team of Israeli researchers has grown self-organizing networks of rat brain cells by binding them to carbon nanotubes. In a short article, New Scientist reports that these neural networks are remarkably...
- Tags: cell, nanotube, network
- Blog posts 2006-06-24
- Nanotubes can resist to 400,000 atmospheres
- Can you believe that carbon nanotubes can resist to pressures as high as 40 gigapascals -- or about a tenth of the one at the center of the Earth? When this limit is reached, they collapse. But before breaking, they propagate this pressure to whatever has been put inside them,...
- Tags: nanotube
- Blog posts 2006-05-28
- 'Cooking' carbon nanotubes like spaghetti
- Scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have developed a technique to force a variety of enzymes to self-assemble layer-by-layer on carbon nanotubes CNTs with the help of noodle-like polymer molecules. In "A biosensor layered like lasagna," the researchers say that this technique can be applied to a wide...
- Tags: carbon nanotube, nanotube, polymer
- Blog posts 2006-04-30
- Carbon nanotube TV trials on horizon
- Carbon nanotube TV trials on horizonDon't you just LOVE Competion.I'm looking forward to these and the large scale OLED TVs as well. When they get the 100 inch models down to about $1,000.00 I'll buy a few.Please make these TVs......LCD and Plasma TVs produce at best, a mediocre image. ...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, TV, flat panel, Carbon nanotube TV, nanotube TV, carbon nanotube
- Discussion threads 2006-03-20
- Storing hydrogen in carbon nanotubes
- Everybody knows that we have to face two crisis related to energy: the exhaustion of fossil fuels and the global warming effect. One possible solution to these problems is to use hydrogen but we're not there yet. However, physicists from California have found a promising way to store hydrogen inside...
- Tags: atom, hydrogen, nanotube
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- IBM sees bright light with carbon nanotubes
- IBM sees bright light with carbon nanotubesTalking about holes . . .A "hole" is simply the absense of an electron from an atom - I don't know how or why the author treats holes as if they were some sort of particle. You don't "inject" a hole - you remove...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, carbon nanotube, IBM Corp., electron, atom, nanotube
- Discussion threads 2005-11-21
- Texas company demos carbon nanotube TV
- Texas company demos carbon nanotube TVTwenty-five inches?And with a 22 inch viewable area? That is sooooo last century. :-)Enough sarcasm though. It seems like the technology has some potential. If it's cost effective, and drives prices down, so much the better.100 inches in diameter. ...http://news.com.com/Carbon+TVs+to+edge+out+liquid+crystal%2C+plasma+-+page+2/2100-1041_3-5512225-2.html?tag=st.nextQC problem?A limit in size usually...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Texas-company, carbon nanotube, nanotube, TV
- Discussion threads 2005-09-07
- Carbon nanotubes
- When is a 1-meter length of wire worth 11 million dollars? When it's made of carbon nanotubes. Bob Artner explains the impact on power generation and space elevators.
- Tags: Nanotechnology, carbon nanotube, nanotube
- Whiteboards 2005-05-18
- Carbon nanotubes
- When is a 1-meter length of wire worth 11 million dollars? When it's made of carbon nanotubes. Bob Artner explains the impact on power generation and space elevators.
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Computer Hardware, carbon nanotube, nanotube, Emerging Technologies
- Whiteboards 2005-05-18
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