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Carbon nanotubes: Great for agriculture, but for humans?

CNTs in agricultureChrisre: research into whether CNTs are safe for humans if ingested or used to improve seed strike or anywhere else in ag. You are correct about the potential risks, but as I read their paper, the researchers who found their tomatoes had improved propagation with CNTs are...

Tags: Nanotechnology, carbon nanotube, nanotube, CNT

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

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

The world's longest carbon nanotube

As you probably know, carbon nanotubes have very interesting mechanical, electrical and optical properties. But they are small. Now, researchers at the University of Cincinnati UC have developed a process to build extremely long aligned carbon nanotube arrays. Theyve been able to produce 18-mm-long carbon nanotubes which might be spun...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Health &, Medicine, Nanotechnology

Blog posts 2007-04-27

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Twitter: 40% babble, but what about the users?

On Monday, research carried out by Pear Analytics determined that 40% of all messages ("tweets") on Twitter are pointless babble. It doesn't say anything about the users though, but does give a rough indication of their personalities without any direct specifics. Now this set me thinking. If I...

Tags: Twitter Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Three groups in Western Hemisphere get MacArthurs

Two Chicago-based groups and one in the Caribbean have been given MacArthur grants for their work involved sustainable technology and neighborhoods. Each will get $650,000 in the annual MacArthur grants to non-profits. 1) Caribbean Natural Resource Institute â€" Port of Spain, Trinidad. For over...

Tags: Chicago, Chicago Community Loan Fund, Real Estate, Transportation, Vertical Industries, Government, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Nanotechnology-based flexible actuators

In 'Nanotube paper flexes on demand,' nanotechweb.org reports that French researchers are using multiwalled carbon nanotubes MWCNTs reinforced with polyvinyl alcohol PVA to develop ultra-lightweight actuators for aerospace applications. The scientists have developed a paper-like sheet which bends when the material is electrically stimulated. As said one of the lead...

Tags: Nanotube, Researcher, Carbon Nanotube, Polymer, Aerospace, PVA, Membrane Filtration, Nanotechnology, Aerospace & Defense, Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-12

Nanoparticles used to trap oil drops

Rice University researchers have found a new way to spontaneously assemble nanoparticles into bag-like sacs. Their 'nanobatons' could be used to clean up oil spills by trapping oil droplets in polluted waters. These nanoparticles could even be more useful for delivering drugs. The researchers found that 'ultraviolet light and magnetic...

Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Researcher, Nanoparticle, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-31

HLP to RTF Converter 4.2 (Windows)

HLP to RTF Converter is a product which allows you to convert any Windows Help files HLP to RTF easily. It is designed to create printable, manual-quality RTF format documents or recompilable projects from Microsoft Windows Help. It allows you to generate a completely recompilable Help project, complete with all...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-03-25

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

Is Vista ready? Microsoft testers weigh in

Microsoft officials obviously believe Windows Vista is ready, given that it is set to release it to manufacturing within weeks, if not days.  But what do some of its toughest testers think? With millions kicking Windows Vista’s tires, just about anyone and everyone is a Vista tester these days. But...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-10-23

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

'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 nanotubes speed up fluids

According to a University of Kentucky news release, researchers have shown that carbon nanotube CNT membranes with pores measuring 7 nanometers in diameter "permit a fluid flow nearly 10,000 to 100,000 times faster than conventional fluid flow theory would predict because of the nanotubes' nearly friction-free surface." As the fabrication...

Tags: membrane

Blog posts 2005-11-13

Coptic Number Translator 1.0 (Windows)

Coptic Number Translator CNT is a program including tutorial that translates or converts modern numerals into bohairic coptic equivalents with options for the masculine, feminine, cardinal and ordinal forms of coptic numbers.

Tags: Tutorial, Ambrose Boles, Coptic Number Translator, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-10-26

HP recalls 135,000 battery packs

HP recalls 135,000 battery packsWould be nice......if the link to the battery replacement website was functioning. I've been trying it throughout the day and it either times out or at one point there was a message saying to try back again later.Good luckBeen trying all day via web and phone,...

Tags: Engineering, battery, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2005-10-14

Are Wi-Fi meshes the answer to disaster communications?

"When communications crumble, do does society," Clive Thompson wrote Sunday in the New York Times ("Talking in the Dark"). Communications crumbled big-time in Katrina. For a week, just about the only people with communications were those government officials and reporters...

Tags: Wi-Fi, telephone

Blog posts 2005-09-22

'All-out war' in Intel-AMD antitrust case

'All-out war' in Intel-AMD antitrust caseIf AMD doesn't win, it's game over for them.This is truly a bet the company move, and from my perspective a very poor one.AMD also 'hired' the following....I believe AMD has also 'hired' the following institutions to "support" their case in the court of public...

Tags: Processors, antitrust, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-15

Motorola builds nanotube-based display

Motorola builds nanotube-based displayAn FED by any other name....This is fascinating news, given Motorola's high-profile investment and then sudden abandonment of FED technology years ago. And this is just a CNT version of FED, apparently. Any talk about "how easy these new panels are to manufacture" is just whistling in...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Studies, cleanup, contamination, Motorola Inc., nanotube, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2005-05-09

C-change ahead for SOA?

C-change ahead for SOA?What is SOA?What is SOA? It would help the reader understand what you're writing about if you define your acronyms and not assume that we are all up on the myriad, sometimes pointless, technology abbreviations.Service-Oriented ArchitectureRicky, SOA stands for Service-Oriented Architecture. For more information, you...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2005-05-05