Irene has finally moved on, to Perth! So all's quiet in the office for the time being...

She just sent me this link, a US firm is going to be using nanotubes to reinforce bodywork in cars, to reduce their weight:


http://nanobugle.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/hybrid-cars-with-carbon-nanotubes/

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This latest video filmed by Ed Goldwyn at a chemical refinery and in various nano2hybrids labs shows why gas detection is so important, how it used to be done and is done today, and where we want to take it tomorrow with nano2hybrids...

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Zeila a interviewé Annick Loiseau à la Neuvième Conférence Internationale sur la Science et l'Application des Nanotubes (NT08) à Montpellier, France, June 2008. Partie 3 de 4 de l'interview.

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Have you ever watched the british TV series Grumpy Old Men ?

Find here the scientific (and younger) version of it.

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What? you couldn't copy the DOI number?, try here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/20/37/375501

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How were toxic gases like benzene detected? We visit a chemical plant in Spain and talk with the safety experts, learn about canaries and japanese mice, and the future of new gas detectors using the latest nanotechnology. But what's the most sensitive detector we have at the moment?

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All the members of nano2hybrids wrote a scientific article together about nanotube gas sensors with gold nanoparticles - and it's now published! It's in a journal called 'Nanotechnology' from the IoP, and you can download and read it by

clicking here - happy reading!

NEWS: And if you click on it in next 30 days (before end of september) it's free to download too...

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We wanted to show some of the other exciting things going on in our lab - it's not all just nano2hybrids! We work alongside people designing the next generation of lithium-ion batteries, making breathroughs in new solar cell technology, even finding new ways to identify fake diamonds...

Meet some of the people in the IMN we work with, hear what they do - and if you think it sounds interesting, drop us a line and come and work here! :-)

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Away from today until the 21st June

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The theory of how we plan to make nanotubes sensitive to benzene, explained by Zeila Zanolli. Our concept is to put a few atoms of metal onto a nanotube surface. Theory suggests clusters of metal atoms will get the benzene molecules to interact with the nanotube

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