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Carbon Nanotubes Toughen a Common Plastic

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has discovered that adding carbon nanotubes to a widely used commercial plastic can greatly strengthen it. Their work is one ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 2 feature




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Flying car 'Transition' gets road approval from NHTSA

(PhysOrg.com) -- Terrafugia’s car/plane vehicle called the Transition, has received approval from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) clearing the way for delivery to customers some ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (16) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies

(AP) -- It's the new front in the nanny state: Microchips placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away. A pro-privacy group warns in a new report that more than 2.6 million of the chips have ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Acrylic glass made of sugar

In future, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) - better known as acrylic glass - could be made from natural raw materials such as sugars, alcohols or fatty acids. PMMA is manufactured by polymerising methyl methacrylate ...

Chemistry /

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Nano World: Clear, hard nano-based coating

A transparent coating loaded with particles only nanometers or billionths of a meter in diameter is far harder than other conventional organic coatings on the market, for potential use in everything from iPods and cell phones ...

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created Dec 13, 2005 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0


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