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The response of aluminium to intense high pressures is stiffer than expected
As perfectly crystalline structures go, carbon nanotubes can be remarkably stretchy. A combination of two mechanisms makes their elongation a self-healing process.
The nature of the boundary between water and oil is crucial to many nanometre-scale assembly processes, including protein folding. But until now, what the interface really looks like remained in dispute.
Molecular motors are of limited use unless they are fixed in place on an immobile substrate. That has now been achieved for the first fully synthetic, fully rotating single-molecule rotors.
Nacre is hard to digest for some bone cells
Spectroscopy puts painting in the Renaissance.
Newly developed ultrathin silicon membranes can filter and separate molecules much more effectively than conventional polymer membranes. Many applications, of economic and medical significance, stand to benefit.
Lucia Covi uses modern microscopy to highlight the world at the nanoscale.
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- UK opportunities to meet with Russian Nanotechnology Corporation
- World-leading nanoscience institutes join forces
- TSB project award for nano-engineered platinum catalyst layers for fuel cells
- Russian Nanotechnology Corporation considers $1.7 billion bond sale
- Thomas Swan achieves commercial-scale production of carbon nanotubes in the U.S.
- NanoKTN and Institute of Nanotechnology Launch International NanoMicroClub to Encourage Global Investment in UK SMEs
- Sizing up nanotechnology: How nanoparticles may affect skin care products
- First Commercial Application of Baytubes® Carbon Nanotubes in Japan
- RUSNANO to invest in production of nanostructured chrome-alumina catalysts for the petrochemical industry
- Eurasian Development Bank and RUSNANO plan to offer joint financing of nanotechnology projects
RUSNANO is currently undertaking a road mapping exercise to guide their investment programme of $8.55 billion.
Two of the world's leading nanoscience institutes have entered into an agreement for research collaboration and educational exchange in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
A £1.1 million project aimed at creating new platinum based catalyst layer designs for fuel cells has been awarded funding by the Technology Strategy Board(1).
Russian Nanotechnologies Corp., the state holding company known as Rusnano, plans to sell the equivalent of $1.7 billion in bonds beginning in the third quarter to fund expansion and new projects.
Leading manufacturer of carbon nanotubes Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. has achieved commercial scale production to meet growing demand in the USA. This success has been marked by the company’s announcement that it has issued a “Notice of Commencement of Manufacture or Import” (NOC) to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in relation to its Elicarb® SW single-wall carbon nanotube products.
The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, and the Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), a professional membership organisation for the nanotechnology industry, has announced its collaboration that with the support of Technology Strategy Board funding, will encourage and support global business development for UK SMEs.
The rapidly growing field of nanotechnology and its future use in cosmetic products holds both enormous potential and potential concern for consumers. Currently, major cosmetic manufacturers have imposed a voluntary ban on the use of nanoparticles in products while they await a ruling from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the safety of this technology. However, these manufacturers know that when ingredients in products such as sunscreens and anti-aging products are converted into nano-sized particles, the end product displays unique properties that can benefit the skin in ways that otherwise could not be achieved using larger-sized particles.
Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany) reports that aqueous suspensions of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) containing individual tubes offer interesting perspectives for a number of new applications which depend on a high electrical or thermal conductivity, respectively.
Commerical production of nanostructured microspheric chrome-alumina catalyzers of dehydrated isoparaffins KDI-90 and adsorbents for desiccant drying of olefin-containing feedstreams will be conducted within the the framework of this project.
Eurasian Development Bank and state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, RUSNANO, recently concluded a memorandum of cooperation. Signing the memorandum on behalf of their respective organizations were Chairman of the Executive Board of the EDB Igor Finogenov and RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais.
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