Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
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Engineers at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new microfluidic device that can detect single cancer cells and viruses in a blood sample. It is about the size of a dime and is made of carbon nanotubes with attached antibodies. Cells touch ...
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Researchers at Rice University have discovered a simple way to make carbon nanotubes shine brighter. The researcher Bruce Weisman, a pioneer in nanotube spectroscopy, found that adding tiny amounts of ozone to batches of single-walled carbon nanotubes and exposing them to light decorates the nanotubes with oxygen ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Researchers at Rice University unveiled a new method for dissolving half-millimeter-long carbon nanotubes in solution, a breakthrough that could pave the way to the development of highly conductive quantum nanowire. Nanotubes have the frustrating habit of bundling, making them less useful than when they're separated in a solution. Rice scientists led by ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Solvay Advanced Polymers LLC has partnered with Entegris Inc.’s TEGO Polymers unit to develop and market advanced carbon nanotube-enhanced PEEK products. The material is suited for a range of emerging applications in medical technology.
Solvay will supply its KetaSpire PEEK resin to Entegris, which will sell compounds enhanced by its novel ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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Researcher Nere Garmendia, based in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián, has published a doctoral thesis that may pave the way for the development of implants with impressive lifespans. According to Garmendia, orthopaedic implants could be developed that would last more than 150 years by developing ...
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
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Brain implants that can clearly record signals from surrounding neurons in rats have been created at the University of Michigan. The findings could lead ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
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Carbon nanotubes have intrigued material scientists since the 1990s, but the commercial applications of the nanomaterial have been limited. One reason for this, is that the metals used to synthesise nanotubes react unfavourably with materials found in ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have succeeded in creating synthetic neurons using carbon nanotubes. The individual neurons--though primitive--have excitatory and inhibitory synapses. USC professors Alice ...
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