Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is an evolving technology that has influenced a large number of industrial segments and is set to play a pivotal role in the development of several other segments. With increasing usage of nanotechnology in various applications such as energy, water, environmental applications and consumer goods, the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 20% during 2009-2013, says our new research report "Nanotechnology Market Forecast...  

As implantable medical devices become smaller, it is getting more difficult to power them using conventional batteries. Stanford University researchers are now using a liquid mixture of carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires to effectively paint highly conductive electricity storage onto typical paper. Being both bendable and lightweight, the technology can help create highly customizable batteries for specialty medical applications. From the...  

One of the reasons I inveigh so heavily against the use of the word “nanotechnology” to mean merely stuff that’s measured in nanometers, is that while it focuses on the size — “nano” — it tends to ignore the function — the “technology.”  Nanotech to me is about high-energy-density, high-frequency, eutactic machinery.  To those focused [...]  

Technology Review: Complex Integrated Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes. The first three-dimensional carbon nanotube circuits, made by researchers at Stanford University, could be an important step in making nanotube computers that could be faster and use less power than today’s silicon chips. Such a computer is still at least 10 years off, but the Stanford work [...]  

Cromoz Inc., located in Research Triangle Park, will initiate water-soluble carbon nanotube-based cancer drug delivery system in Hyderabad, India. The water-soluble carbon nanotubes, which have functional groups on the walls that allows for conjugation with cancer drugs, was developed in partnership with the Indian Institute of Kanpur (ITT).  

There are more than 13,000 U.S. patents with ``nano`` in their titles, and more than 1,000 consumer products contain nanoparticles. Yet, there is no international regulation of nanoproducts or nanotechnology... or evaluating the environmental impacts of nanoparticles. more...  

ScienceNOW: In the world of nanotechnology, few things get as much billing as nanotubes. Experts say that these cylinders composed of one-molecule-thin sheets could someday be used in everything from superstrong jet engines to cancer cures. Now researchers think they've...  

, a leading manufacturer of single-wall and specialty multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNT), has been awarded two prestigious grants from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology ...  

Graphene and carbon nanotubes have a combination of excellent electrical properties and light weight that may eventually revolutionize electronics and energy storage technologies. But for now, most of their applications remain stuck in research labs, as producing them in bulk and then incorporating them into a device have both proven to be challenging. Now, some researchers at Stanford may have overcome the latter...  

Here’s a cool photograph of “the first macroscopic, commercially usable boron nitride nanotubes”, spun into a piece of BNNT “yarn”. Visible to the naked eye, these nanotubes are now long enough to be woven into fibers, “and thus capable of being used for a vast number of commercial applications.” While it’s small in size, it’s being hailed as a significant sign of “the coming of the one technology that can definitively (in theory) bring about...  

Winning the fight against cancer may end up being more of a nano-war than a surgical strike. A team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology has just successfully combined an antibody with single-walled nanotubes to create a precision search-and-destroy weapon that targets aggressive forms of breast cancer.  

ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2009) — Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper. Simply coating a sheet of paper with ink made of carbon ...  

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and researchers from Stanford University and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) today announced they have developed the industry?s first top-gated field effect transistor (FETs) and CMOS inverters featuring 20 nanometer (nm) contact holes using diblock copolymer lithography.  

University of Southern California researchers have made large, functional arrays of transistors at room temperature, using simple methods from batches of carbon nanotubes that are relatively impure, but capable of driving display pixels in computer and TV monitors. Arrays of silicon transistors need to be made at high temperatures and in a vacuum, so they're very expensive. ACS/Nano Letters . (Source: http://mobile.technologyreview...  

Mice exposed to drinking water contaminated withtitanium dioxide nanoparticles developed inflammation and DNA damage, report UCLA researchers. Meanwhile, nanoparticles are getting into the environment when people wash off or discard nanotech-enabled products such as makeup, sunscreen, and paint.