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Industrial Nanotech’s Nansulate Can Provide Significant Energy Savings

Nanoscience energy saving solutions provider Industrial Nanotech, Inc. has now become an ALLY organization of the Industrial Technologies Program Save Energy Now of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

22 Apr 2010

Scientist Look to Stop Nanoparticles Getting Into The Environment Via Sewage Treatment Plants

In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles in municipal sewage treatment plants - their main gateway into the environment

11 Nov 2009

Scientists Work Out Way to Use Nanotechnology to "Grow" Solar Cells

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National
Laboratory have refined a technique to manufacture solar cells by creating tubes
of semiconducting material and then "growing" polymers directly inside
them. The method has the potential to be significantly cheaper than the process
used to make today's commercial solar cells

10 Nov 2009

Carbon Nanotubes Hold the Key to Hydrogen Fuel Tanks for Cars, Buses and Trucks

Hydrogen fuel, because its only byproduct is steam, should be the ultimate in green alternatives to fossil fuels, but it hasn’t delivered on its promise yet because of one enormous stumbling block, storage. Now a team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed a computational model that shows that carbon nanotubes may offer a surprising solution

27 Oct 2009

Making Oil More Profitable By Using Nanotechnology

A wall of graphene a single nanometer wide could be the difference between an oil well that merely pays for itself and one that returns great profit

26 Oct 2009

IEEE 2010 'Green' Conference Endorsed by Major Nanotechnology Expo

The long awaited news on dates and location for nanotxUSA 2010 are finally clear, the event is being rescheduled for the following year. Exhibitors and other partners wishing to participate in a 2010 event are being asked to be part of the important Green Technologies Conference being produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

8 Oct 2009

US EPA Launches Strategy Into Understanding Possible Environmental Harm Caused by Nanomaterials

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today outlined a new research strategy to better understand how manufactured nanomaterials may harm human health and the environment

30 Sep 2009

Cheap, Environmentally Friendly Batteries Made From Paper

Imagine a gift wrapped in paper you really do treasure and want to carefully fold and save. That's because the wrapping paper lights up with words like "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Holidays," thanks to a built in battery - an amazing battery made out of paper

23 Sep 2009

Carbon Nanotube Springs Breakthrough as Long Term, Reliable Energy Storage Batteries

New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes - tube-shaped molecules of pure carbon - could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy, pound for pound, as state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, and potentially more durably and reliably

21 Sep 2009

Arkema to Present Latest Solar Photovoltaic Technology

At the 24th Photovoltaic Solar Energy Exhibition held in Hamburg from 21 to 25 September 2009, Arkema presents its latest innovation for the photovoltaics market: Apolhya™ Solar, a nanostructured thermoplastic polymer for the encapsulation of new generation photovoltaic modules

21 Sep 2009