(Nanowerk Spotlight) Liquid crystals (LCs) are optically anisotropic materials, and they are widely used in electro-optical display technology, known as liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Understanding ...

Geckos are capable of climbing on all kinds of natural surfaces. This unique ability has inspired the development of an innovative dry adhesive that can imitate the hairs present on these animals’ ...

Existing Thermal Interface Materials (TIM) technologies comprise phase change materials (PCMs), solders, thermal greases or pastes, and thermally conductive adhesive tapes. In routinely used thermal ...

However, despite the enormous promise, the widespread adoption of VACNTs has been hindered by a few persistent challenges. The abundant van der Waals forces between individual nanotubes and their low ...

Ever since their discovery, carbon nanotubes have been heralded as the new wonder material of the future. Their remarkable mechanical and electronic properties destine them to play a major role in all ...

French company Nawa technologies says it's already in production on a new electrode design that can radically boost the performance of existing and future battery chemistries, delivering up to 3x the ...

N12 Technologies is commercializing NanoStitch, the world's first vertically aligned CNT product via a continuous industrial process, which bridges adjacent CFRP plies, boosting a variety of composite ...

Membranes of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VaCNT) can be used to clean or desalinate water at high flow rate and low pressure. Recently, researchers carried out steroid hormone adsorption ...

The dark and colorful secrets of vertically aligned arrays of carbon nanotubes have now been revealed. The formation of continuous or nanopatterned arrays of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) ...

Carbon nanotubes have found use in everything from heart-rate-monitoring shirts to smart bandages to more efficient solar cells. Now, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have used them ...