Nanotechnologies

Apr 18, 2008 - Arkema and Amber Composites Collaborate on State of the Art New Prepreg To Utilize Graphistrength™ Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Arkema and Amber Composites have entered into a collaborative agreement to develop the next generation of high performance prepreg systems based on Arkema's Graphistrength™ multi-wall carbon nanotubes and Amber's proprietary resins.
Apr 15, 2008 - Innovative Nanotechnologies Available for Commercialization Showcased by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

More than 200 entrepreneurs and business executives learned how they can capitalize on cutting-edge nanotechnologies developed in the research facilities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The event, "Opening the Doors to the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Nanoelectronics, Nanofabrication and Nanometrology," which was supported by the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) and the Tech Council of Maryland/MdBio (TCM/MdBio), highlighted more than 21 technologies available for licensing and/or commercialization.
Apr 04, 2008 - Carbon Nanotubes for New Thermoplastic Materials

The excellent electrical conductivity and mechanical strength of Baytubes® carbon nanotubes were the decisive factors leading to a cooperation agreement on thermoplastics between Bayer MaterialScience AG and Clariant Masterbatches (Deutschland) GmbH. Bayer MaterialScience will supply Clariant with industrial quantities of high-quality Baytubes® for the manufacture of development and sales products for compounds and master batches. The carbon nanotubes, CNT for short, will initially be used in the new CESA® conductive CNT product range. Potential applications for the resultant compounds include electrically conductive machine components and packaging for delicate electronic components such as computer chips.
Mar 10, 2008 - Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create "Invisibility Cloak" For Colloidal Particles

Carnegie Mellon University's Michael Bockstaller and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have created a version of Harry Potter's famed "invisibility cloak" for nanoparticles.
Mar 07, 2008 - New Research Shows that Hard Plastic can Change into Soft and Vice Versa

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the departments of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering at the Case School of Engineering and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center has published ground-breaking work on a new type of polymer that displays chemoresponsive mechanic adaptability-meaning the polymer can change from hard to soft plastic and vice versa in seconds when exposed to liquid-in the March 7, 2008, issue of Science, one of the world's most prestigious scholarly journals covering all aspects of science.
Feb 28, 2008 - Buhler Partec Among the Top Third of Companies Firms Active in Nanotechnology

Buhler Partec, which specializes in chemical nanotechnology, was awarded the rating "positive" by New York, USA based emerging technology research and advisory firm Lux Research in its latest reference study, The Nanotech Report, 5th Edition. This external and independent evaluation therefore sees Buhler Partec among the top 31% of the companies active in nanotechnology studied in the report.
Feb 28, 2008 - Fiber-based Nanotechnology Could Power Electronic Devices

Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a "power shirt" able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy.
Feb 27, 2008 - NRL Scientists Produce Carbon Nanotubes Using Commercially Available Polymeric Resins

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have successfully produced carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in high yields in bulk solid compositions using commercially available aromatic containing resins. The concentration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and metal nanoparticles can be easily varied within the shaped carbonaceous solid. Carbon nanotube containing fibers and films have also been formulated from the precursor compositions. The potential range of applications is huge, including structure, energy, sensors, separation/filtration, battery, electronic displays, and nanoelectronic devices.
Feb 20, 2008 - International Conference on Nano Science and Technology

An International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT-2008) is to be held at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA during 27-29th February , 2008. This Conference, sponsored by the National Initiative on Nano Science and Technology of the Department of Science and Technology
Feb 19, 2008 - Bayer MaterialScience and Toyota Tsusho Conclude Distribution Agreement for Baytubes®

Bayer MaterialScience AG and the Toyota Tsusho Corporation have concluded a distribution agreement for Baytubes®, Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs). In accordance with this agreement, Toyota Tsusho will act as Bayer MaterialScience's exclusive distributor responsible for the marketing, sales, technical development and support of the Baytubes® business in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Feb 14, 2008 - Outstanding Electrical Conductivity, Low Material Consumption

One of the distinctive advantages of Baytubes® carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is their high electrical conductivity, a property that can be used, for example, to make plastics conductive. This very effect is the basis of an innovative product recently introduced by Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA, an international manufacturer of high-quality transport packaging headquartered in Selters, Germany.
Feb 12, 2008 - Nanostrength®, A Unique Acrylic Block Copolymer Offering

In the nanotechnology age, changing matter at the nanometer scale offers some very interesting property tradeoffs. However, until now, these new nanotechnologies have yielded very few industrial achievements, with the main obstacle being the difficulty in fabricating matter down to this scale using available industrial techniques. Therefore, for many years, composite materials were not able to benefit from nanotechnologies.
Feb 07, 2008 - Shear Ingenuity: Tweaking the Conductivity of Nanotube Composites

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics-a relatively low CNT concentration can dramatically change the polymer's electrical conductivity by orders of magnitude, from an insulator to a conductor. New measurements by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have uncovered an intriguing wrinkle.
Feb 01, 2008 - Nanotech Yields Darkest Material Ever Measured

Researchers from Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created the darkest material ever measured -- a thin carpet of carbon nanotubes that's four times darker than the previous record-holder.
Jan 25, 2008 - Scripps Research Scientists Develop New Method for Creating Self-Assembling, Nanoscale Materials

While biomedical, electronics, and other branches of research are marching steadily into the realm of the smaller-than-small nanometer scale, building needed materials at this scale has been problematic.
Jan 24, 2008 - EV Group Wins Multi-Million-Euro Order From Leading European Electronics Manufacturer for High-Volume Production of Flexible Displays

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of manufacturing equipment for the advanced packaging/3D interconnect, MEMS, SOI (silicon-on-insulator), nanotechnology, compound semiconductor and silicon-based power devices markets, announced that it has received a multi-million-Euro order from a leading European plastic electronics manufacturer for the high-volume production of flexible displays.
Jan 10, 2008 - Braggone Receives Multi-Million Dollar Funding to Commercialize Nano-Engineered Polymer Technology for Emiconductor, Solar Panel and Flat Panel Display Manufacturing

Braggone, the optoelectronics materials company, has received multi-million dollar funding from TEKES (The National Technology Agency of Finland) to commercialize their polymer materials for worldwide commercialization. TEKES is the same funding agency behind Nokia's dramatic success in the cell phone market.
Jan 08, 2008 - .5 Micron Fiber Now Possible with New Nano Technology from Hills Inc. and Celanex® Next Generation PBT from Ticona Engineering Polymers

Nano fibers media is now possible using Hills Inc's special meltblowing die and Celanex® Next Generation JKX-1158 polymer. Celanex JKX-1158 provided the high strength and low fly necessarry to achieve 300-400nm fibers.
Jan 07, 2008 - New Method For Developing Mechanically-reinforced Polymer Nanocomposites Developed

At Case Western Reserve University, scientists have developed a new method to for developing mechanically-reinforced polymer nanocomposites. The incorporation of nanoparticles into polymers is a design approach that is widely used in all areas of materials science, says Christoph Weder of Case Western Reserve University, senior author of the paper in Nature Nanotechnology.
Jan 04, 2008 - Biomedical Shape-Memory Polymers Developed

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique polymers, which change shape upon heating, to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine.
Jan 02, 2008 - NIST Imaging System Maps Nanomechanical Properties

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps the mechanical properties of materials-how stiff or stretchy they are, for example-at scales on the order of billionths of a meter. The new tool can be a cost-effective way to design and characterize mixed nanoscale materials such as composites or thin-film structures.
Dec 28, 2007 - New Paper Reveals Nanoscale Details of Photolithography Process

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of thin polymer films used in the manufacture of advanced semiconductor devices. It's a matter of only a couple of nanometers, but it can be enough to affect the performance of next-generation chip manufacturing. The NIST measurements, detailed in a new paper, offer a new insight into the complex chemistry that enables the mass production of powerful new integrated circuits.
Dec 17, 2007 - Bayer MaterialScience Cooperates with Brenntag Schweizerhall AG

Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS) has entered a distribution agreement for its carbon nanotubes, BayTubes®, with Brenntag Schweizerhall AG. BMS is a world-leading manufacturer of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and is seeking strategic cooperation partners to foster the development of industrial applications.
Dec 04, 2007 - Solvay Science for Innovation Conference Focuses on the Creation of Novel, Complex Materials

Lectures by Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, 1987) and Robert B. Laughlin (Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 1998) concluded a three-day Solvay Science for Innovation conference, which focused on "Building up complex materials: from nanoscale to end-use properties."
Nov 22, 2007 - University of Tuebingen Ready to Produce Carbon Nanotubes on AIXTRON CVD system

AIXTRON AG announced the installation and commissioning of a Nanoinstruments Black Magic 2-inch R&D equipment for carbon nanotube (CNT) growth at the Physics and Chemistry Research Facility, University of Tuebingen, Germany. The new equipment combines both thermal CVD and plasma enhanced CVD in a single platform, and will be used for the development of carbon nanotube-based field effect transistors, vacuum electronic devices and sensor technology.
Nov 15, 2007 - Buhler PARTEC and Brenntag Schweizerhall Collaborate to Market Carbon-Nanotube Dispersions

Bühler PARTEC, a company active in nanotechnology, and Brenntag Schweizerhall, provider of specialty and bulk chemicals, are collaborating to bring the value of Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) to the market. The collaboration involves the development and production of tailor-made CNT dispersions by Bühler and their marketing and distribution by Brenntag Schweizerhall.
Nov 06, 2007 - Cereplast Turns Up the Heat on Bioplastics with a New High Temperature Thermoforming Resin in its Compostables™ Resin Family

Cereplast, Inc., manufacturer of proprietary bio-based sustainable plastics, announced the launch of a new high temperature resistant thermoforming resin, CP-TH-6000, in its Compostables™ family. Cereplast now offers 15 different grades of resins in the Compostables™ for different converting applications. CP-TH-6000 is being marketed at price lower to conventional styrenic thermoformed resin and is commercially available as of November 1st. At a time of increasing demand for bioplastics Cereplast believes that this new resin illustrates its technological advance in the sector.
Oct 31, 2007 - Techmer PM's Nanoclay Technology Improves Barrier Film Properties

The pundits agree: Nanotechnology heralds a revolutionary new era in materials science. Being able to manipulate material structures and components at the scale of billionths of a meter ("nano" means billionth) opens up entirely new potentials, ushering in prospects for unprecedented improvements in material properties.
Sep 06, 2007 - Bayer MaterialScience AG Expands Carbon Nanotube Capacity

Bayer MaterialScience AG is opening a second production facility for Baytubes®, its carbon nanotubes, at H.C. Starck GmbH in the town of Laufenburg on the German-Swiss border. The new facility has an annual capacity of 30 metric tons. Together with the pilot production plant for Baytubes® already located at the site, this now gives Bayer MaterialScience a total annual capacity of 60 metric tons in Laufenburg.
Aug 27, 2007 - Nanoparticle Technique Could Lead to Improved Semiconductors

As electrical charges travel through plastic semiconductors, they can be trapped much like a marble rolling on a bumpy surface becomes trapped in a deep hole. These traps of charges are known as "deep traps," and they are not well understood.