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  2. May 2008

May 2008

P2i Ltd attracts additional investment from venture capitalist

1 May 2008
Unilever ventures, London, Uk, is investing in plasma-based technology that helps to create waterproof surfaces.
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Protection without weight with Nanovate

1 May 2008
Nanovate-NS coating developed by Integran Technologies of Toronto, Canada, is designed to protect composite parts from rain erosion, sand erosion and other wear damage.
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Expanding use for Vectran

1 May 2008
Kuraray's Vectran HT is a high-tenacity fibre that is increasingly being used by product designers and engineers as an alternative to aramids.
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$4.9 billion value of 2015 nanotextiles market

1 May 2008
Nanobased products and processes will be worth US$4.9 billion to the textiles industry by 2015, according to one of a series of new reports from the UK's Technology Transfer Centre.
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Carbon nanotubes from commercially available polymeric resins

1 May 2008
Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory have successfully produced carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in high yields in bulk solid compositions using commercially available aromatic containing resins.
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Shape memory for satellites

1 May 2008
Tembo elastic memory composite (EMC) materials manufactured by Composite Technology Development (CTD), based in Lafayette, Colorado, USA, are being employed in antenna reflector technology that can pr
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LZR gets the all-clear

1 May 2008
When Libby Trickett scored her second world record on the last day of the Australian Trials in Sydney at the end of March, she brought the total of world records achieved in the Speedo LZR Racer swims
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Japanese partner for Baytubes

1 May 2008
Bayer MaterialScience has established a strategic collaboration with Toyota Tsusho Japan for its Baytubes.
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CNT battery printed with nano-ink

1 May 2008
Professor George Gruner and a group of scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles have recently fabricated a flexible carbon nanotube-based battery architecture from 'nanotube ink', usi
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Explosion-proof transport with Baytubes

1 May 2008
Bayer continues to concentrate on new applications for its Baytubes, and has recently exhibited the F1-EX-Nano plastic transport drum, which derives the electrical conductivity it needs from carbon na
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Nano paves the way for the morph

1 May 2008
Morph is a joint nanotechnology concept developed by the Nokia Research Center in Finland and the University of Cambridge in the UK with the aim of demonstrating how future mobile devices might be str
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