Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been demonstrated to have remarkable physical, electrical and thermal properties and are likely to find numerous applications. Within the electronics sphere, CNTs promise high-capacity non-volatile computer memories, television displays with better performance than anything now on the market, a solution for high-speed chip interconnection, ultra-fast processors and logic, low-cost highly responsive sensors, and even new kinds of packaging and thermal management... Read Full Story
Researchers at the University of Illinois have created a major breakthrough in creating nanostructures , and will potentially effect everything from water purification to electronics manufacture and the creation of photonic crystals. A trio of researchers, Eric Duoss, Mariusz Twardowski, and Jennifer Lewis created the breakthrough technology which currently can create structures as small as 225 nanometers, with their goal to create structures as small as 100 nanometers. The technique permits... Read Full Story
It sounds like a gel but this is a solid, tougher than glass. This crazy material is a product of Nanotechnology. Aerogel is like foam, principally made out of air (99.8% air). Aerogel is made from alcogel (a gel made by polymerisation silicon alkoxide with water in a mixing solvent). The alcogel is dried and liquid is extracted from the solid silica. The remaining solid is then filled with air to 50-99% of the volume of the original alcogel (Aerogel - gel filled with air). Aerogel is 1000... Read Full Story
Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a novel application of NMR technology and made it possible to directly observe the complex folding of the RNA molucule responsible for the replication of the virus that causes AIDS Read Full Story
The early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science features a paper in which scientists have discovered a strain of bacteria that will build semiconducting nanotubes Read Full Story
Researchers at the University of Illinois and Northrop Grumman have built the worlds smallest transistor radio using carbon nanotubes producing an audible signal with all of its principal components fabricated from the new technology Read Full Story
Nanotechnology is expected to be worth $27 billion in five years time, according to a report issued by BCC research.
Worth an estimated $11.6 billion in 2007, the market is forecast to increase to $12.7 billion in 2008, reaching a value over double this amount in the next five years at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.3%.
The market comprises the applications of nanomaterials, nanotools and nanodevices, with nanomaterials accounting for 87% of the market. This segment is... Read Full Story
The term "nanotechnology" was defined by Professor Norio Taniguchi in 1974 at Tokyo Science University.Nanotechnology is hailed by a number of scientists, since nanotechnology is the next industrial revolution in an extensive variety to regulated the ecological enrichment organization as part of a revolutionize in national strategy. The universal ambition of nanotechnology investigate programs is to diminish composite and complicated equipment into very small operational units. . One... Read Full Story
Not long ago I did a Podcast
with George Elvin about nanotechnology for construction. At the time I hadn’t
had a chance to take a look at some of these products he talked about in our
conversation. But recently I saw a press release from Industrial Nanotech, Inc . in Naples FL
that was announcing the upcoming use of their paint-on insulation at a housing
development in Texas Read Full Story
