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France’s LETI (Laboratoire d’Electronique de Technologie de l’Information) has become one of the first European sites to install and begin using the world’s highest-resolution, commercially-available scanning/transmission electron (S/TEM) microscope, the FEI Titan™ 80-300. This new system yields powerful sub-Angstrom (atomic scale) imaging and analysis capabilities.

Engineers at Purdue University have developed a technique to grow individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer, a step toward making advanced electronics, wireless devices and sensors using nanotubes by stacking circuits and components in layers. The technique might help develop a method for creating “vertically oriented” nanoelectronic devices, the electronic equivalent of a skyscraper, said Timothy S. Fisher, an associate professor of mechanical engineering who is leading the work with Timothy D. Sands, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering.

Researchers have developed a new technique that could provide detailed information about the growth of carbon nanotubes and other nanometre-scale structures as they are being produced. The technique offers a way for researchers to rapidly and systematically map how changes in growth conditions affect the fabrication of nanometre-scale structures.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has licenced its carbon nanotube technology to a new commercial partner, Seattle-based CNT Technologies Inc. (CNT Tech). The ultrastrong, lightweight carbon-nanotube fibre, branded SuperThread™ by the company, can have better properties than steel for many applications and could soon be the primary substance from which airplanes, automobile parts and sports equipment are made. Initial tests show that SuperThread is pound for pound (for the same weight) one-hundred times stronger than steel and less than one-fortieth the weight.