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8/11/2010 | RD 100 Awards
Nanostructured membranes are an emerging solution for water purification in areas where clean drinking water is in short supply. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Porifera, Inc. have built cost-effective Ultrapermeable Carbon Nanotube Membranes that could push this advantage still further.
8/6/2010 | RD 100 Awards
Although cardiologists may insert drug eluting stents, none of the traditional stents today offer the benefit of slow, continuous drug elution over an extended period of time. To that end, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Wash.), along with Micell Technologies (Raleigh, N.C.), have developed e-RESS: Revolutionizing Coatings with Nanoparticles. The e-RESS (Electro-static Rapid Expansion of Supercritical fluids) process is a method to deposit nanoparticulate coatings in a few simple processing steps.
4/1/2010 | Tools And Technology
Working with renowned nanotechnology Professor Olaf Proli, AkzoNobel has developed a hi-tech textile coating—Invisulux—which renders people wearing the painted garments invisible. Successful trials have already been carried out by interested security and defense organizations.
2/12/2010 | Tools And Technology
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has partnered with Ceres Nanosciences and Nonlinear Dynamics to bring the future of biomarker discovery to laboratory researchers. The Nanotrap Biomarker Discovery Platform gives researchers the ability to enrich, preserve and screen low-level biomarkers directly from complex biological samples.
7/31/2009 | RD 100 Awards
The performance of certain technologies depends heavily on pore size, and, until the recent arrival of Tunable Nanoporous Carbon, developed by Y-Carbon, Inc. (King of Prussia, Pa.) and Drexel Univ. (Philadelphia, Pa.), no manufacturing methods were able to provide the control of the pore size. Starting with an inorganic precursor, such as silicon carbide, materials scientists etched the metal or metalloid from the carbide in a halogen environment, such as chlorine, at elevated temperature.
7/27/2009 | RD 100 Awards
Sandia National Laboratories' (Albuquerque, N.M.) NanoCoral Dendritic platinum nanostructures for renewable energy applications are the first shaped Pt nanostructures, offering an opportunity for improving the cost and efficiency of fuel cells. The nanostructures are produced by controlling the dendritic metal growth that occurs during the chemical reduction of various types of aqueous platinum complexes, resulting in 3 nm metal arms separated by space of about 1 nm.
9/29/2008 | RD 100 Awards
Above the protection of Earth’s atmosphere, solar radiation exerts its full power, helping trace elements in low Earth orbit rapidly degrade materials. In view of the damage atomic oxygen wreaks on polymer surfaces, ManTech SRS Technologies, Inc. (Huntsville, Ala.) designed CORIN (Colorless Organic/Inorganic Nanocomposite) XLS to provide protection against this sort of decay.
9/1/2007 | RD 100 Awards
Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Fort Worth, Texas) seek to greatly boost control of deposition processes with a wet solution-based innovation, a Self-assembling Process for Fabricating Tailored Thin Films. Made of ordered, high-density nanocomposites, the film can be fine-tuned in thicknesses of a few nanometers up to 1 µm by changing particle composition, concentration, or both.
9/1/2006 | RD 100 Awards
Nickel is important not only as a component of such materials as stainless steel and high-temperature alloys, but in its finer forms as a conductive filler. In order to enhance the useful properties of nickel, such as conductivity, magnetic properties, catalytic efficiency, and chemical stability, Metal Matrix Composites Company LLC (Midway, Utah) and Jenkin Company (Akron, Ohio), have developed Nanostrands, three-dimensionally interconnected, self-assembled lattices of sub-micron and nanostructured strands of nickel.
9/1/2005 | RD 100 Awards
Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) 12 years ago, researchers around the world have harnessed their unique intrinsic properties for a variety of applications. Researchers at Zyvex Corp., Richardson, Texas, have taken this research to the next level by creating materials that selectively transfer the superior intrinsic properties of carbon nanotubes into composite materials. The Zyvex NanoSolve materials work in conjunction with the company’s Kentera technology.
