The demand for the raw materials of the nanotechnology revolution – nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, quantum dots, etc – is rising explosively and large chemical companies keep expanding their production capacities. As production moves from a workshop model to an industrial production process, prices for these materials are ...

Adidas worked with Olympic 400m runner Jeremy Wariner for more than two years to create the revolutionary adidas Lone Star spike, which is named after Wariner's home state of Texas. The Lone Star is the world's first asymmetrical 400m spike, featuring the first ever full-length carbon nanotubes reinforced plate and the exclusive adidas ...

Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic "nanomachines" that may someday be used to deliver lifesaving medications or test the quality of drinking water in remote regions of the world. In place of turbochargers and high-octane gas, the scientists ...

A research group has devised a way to control the diameter of a carbon nanotube -- down to essentially zero nanometers. This useful new ability, designed by scientists from the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National L...