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Using nanometre scale analysis techniques and quantities too small to explode, researchers have mapped the temperature and length-sale factors that make energetic materials—otherwise known as explosives—behave the way they do.

Materials on the nanoscale don’t always have the same properties they would in bulk; for one thing, nanomaterials are often a lot harder. Unlike most bulk materials, a crystal that is small enough can be perfect, free of defects, capable of achieving strength near its ideal theoretical limit.

DuPont expects to introduce in 2007 a family of thermoplastic nanocomposites that promise to open new opportunities for design and production of plastic parts delivering higher performance, lighter weight and increased moulding productivity. The new offerings will be targetted to automotive, electrical, electronic and industrial applications.

by David Grandy
Anasys Instruments Corp., 3944 State Street, Suite 345, Santa Barbara, California 93105, USA.
http://www.anasysinstruments.com

Anasys Instruments is proud to announce that their scientific co-founder, Professor William King of Georgia Tech, has been named as a member of MIT’s Technology Review 2006 TR35, for his work in the area of nanoscale thermal probes. The TR35, chosen by the editors of Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of 35 individuals under the age of 35 whose innovative work in technology is changing our world.  Prof. King’s work in thermal characterisation is expected to have profound implications in the characterisation of materials at the nanoscale.