Nanotechnology May Change Energy Industry
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BISMARCK, N.D. &#151; Jack Uldrich says his stain-resistant pants are just the beginning for a technology that could someday be used to create cell phones so small they can be sewn into clothes and enhance electrical transmission through power lines.
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A new solar breakthrough could expand a subsidiary's business.
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Assembling nanomaterials with the help of innocuous viruses could lead to threadlike Â¬batteries and photovoltaics that can be woven into clothing.
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Larger supplies, more energy alternatives, and a slowing economy could be factors.
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India's new $2,500 Nano just may change the lives of millions of the world's poor. But some worry it could also complicate environmental problems
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A tiny picture of Cambridge University's crest demonstrates the emerging power of nanotechnology.
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By Houston Chronicle  Jun. 26--If nanotechnology is a racehorse, then industry is a jockey whipping it along to market at a breakneck pace. The regulatory community is a poor old trainer limping along in the backstretch, pleading to wrap the horse's legs for safety.
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Big opportunities await patient investors in nanotech, cleantech, and robotics.
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British researchers warn that the proliferation of power-hungry devices is demanding more energy.
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Carbon nanotube technology could lead to flatter, cheaper TVs.
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Based on a new theory, MIT scientists may be able to manipulate carbon nanotubes -- one of the strongest known materials and one of the trickiest to work with -- without destroying their extraordinary electrical properties. The work is reported in the Sept.
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Says government has failed to act Nanotechnology will be the next industrial revolution, and if the UK wants a piece of the action, it has to move now to fund research in the subject.â¦
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Exotic materials and cheaper substrates could lead to better photovoltaics.
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Nanowires put more power in smaller packages, researcher reports.
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Although a number of companies are working to develop higher-powered batteries for laptops and high-tech gadgets, real breakthroughs in the technology could be a decade away.
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Specialist in nanomaterial manufacturing will use its process to develop silicon cells.
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One of the last frontiers of semiconductor technology - environments where electronic devices have to run at high power, in fierce heat or at lethal doses of radiation - may be about to fall.