Biomaterials Could nanotubes stimulate cartilage growth? June 25, 2008 Bioengineers are hoping they may have solved some of the problems associated with the healing of joint injuries. Many individuals who sustain cartilage damage never fully recover because cartilage generally lacks the ability to heal and rebuild itself as other tissues do.Read Comments (0) | more » View all articles for this topic » |
Communications & Electronics New iPhone cradled in ceramic case? July 23, 2008 t’s been hard to escape the news of the just-released 3G version of Apple’s iPhone, but an interesting debate about one feature of the gadget is starting to unfold: What the heck is the phone’s case made of? Read Comments (0) | more » View all articles for this topic » |
Energy & Environment Supercables to the rescue August 6, 2008 Are high-efficiency power lines in our future? Superconductor Technologies Inc. and the Los Alamos National Lab think so. STI announced that it and LANL have entered into a collaboration to apply STI's high-temperature superconductor materials expertise to LANL's research initiative to develop HTS coated conductors for power transmission lines.Read Comments (0) | more » View all articles for this topic » |
Military Scale construction in primitive fish may trigger ceramic armor redesign August 6, 2008 We suspect that body armor designers at companies like CoorsTek and Ceradyne are already following up on a recent discovery by MIT engineers.Read Comments (0) | more » View all articles for this topic » |
Nanotechnology Nanotube improves ‘feel’ of microscopy July 23, 2008 Nanotube improves ‘feel’ of microscopy
Julie MacPherson, a research fellow at the University of Warwick (U.K.) explains the workings of an atomic force microscope and how the use of a nanotube-enabled AFM unlocks the structure and contours of materials on the nanoscale.Read Comments (0) | more » View all articles for this topic » |
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