Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and collaborators are developing a new military uniform material that repels chemical and biological agents using a novel carbon nanotube fabric. The material will be designed to undergo a rapid transition from a breathable state to a protective state. The highly breathable membranes would have pores made of a few-nanometer-wide [...]

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — In August 2007, the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The collapse was attributed to a design deficiency that resulted in a gusset plate failing during ongoing construction work. Now, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Delaware is [...]

NanoFonc est un consortium soutenu par la région Pays de la Loire dans son appel à projets 2009, volet « émergence collective », qui regroupe 9 laboratoires régionaux et 3 laboratoires bretons. Découvrez la vidéo de présentation! (rubrique « Documents accessibles à tous« )       NanoFonc vise à faire reconnaître nos activités et nos compétences dans l’élaboration [...]

Ray Baughman creates artificial muscles, by Jorge Salazar (EarthSky // Interviews // Human World, March 2012) Baughman’s lab creates tiny artificial muscles. They spin carbon nanotubes into yarn stronger than steel yet so light it almost floats in air. Nature has been developing her technologies for many hundreds of millions of years, said Ray Baughman. [...]

Mass production of high quality graphene: An analysis of worldwide patents [Read Full article] (Nanowerk Spotlight) Graphene is undoubtedly emerging as the most promising nanomaterial because of its unique combination of superb properties, which opens a way for its exploitation in a wide spectrum of applications. However, it has to overcome a number of obstacles [...]

Making graphene ‘bread’ – leavening technique results in freestanding graphene oxide films (Nanowerk Spotlight)  Integration of graphene sheets and its functional derivatives  into three-dimensional (3D) macroscopic structures is drawing  much attention since it is an essential step to explore  the advanced properties of individual graphene sheets for  practical applications, such as chemical filters and electrodes  [...]

Aug 28, 2012 19:14 Tetsuo Nozawa, Nikkei Electronics. Sony Corp developed a machine that produces graphene, which is two-dimensionally connected carbon atoms, by using a roll-to-roll method and made a graphene sheet with a width of 23cm and a length of 100m. It is the largest area of graphene sheet in the world. Sony will [...]

Peratech thinks printable electronic sensors of volatile compounds could find their way into textiles. Thin nose: Peratech’s VOC-sensing film (the small round gray area on right side of this testing equipment) could be integrated into clothing or onto paper. Peratech A U.K. company says its highly pressure-sensitive material could be used to integrate an « electronic [...]

Many conferences on graphene have been held this calendar year and I myself have attended quite a few of them. For me, Graphene 2012—held in Brussels on April 10–13—was in some ways similar to many of these other conferences, and in other ways it was a distinctive conference. [Read more] Mildred S. Dresselhaus (2012). One [...]