NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. chemists have developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly nanotechnology for producing antimicrobial, vegetable oil-based paints.

HOUSTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A scientist at a Houston university has created the darkest known material -- about four times darker than the previous record holder.

TROY, N.Y., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered blocks of carbon nanotubes can be used to create effective, highly sensitive and powerful pressure sensors.

TROY, N.Y., July 24 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are advancing the role of graphene as a possible successor to the use of copper and silicon in nanoelectronics.

AKRON, Ohio, June 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created a flexible synthetic adhesive tape that is extraordinarily "sticky" that can adhere to a wide variety of materials. Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., and the University of Akron in Ohio said th

MAINZ, Germany, May 25 (UPI) -- An international team of scientists, led by Germany's Johannes Gutenberg University, said carbon nanotubes might act as metalworking nanotools.

TROY, N.Y., March 1 (UPI) -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute scientists in Troy, N.Y., have developed a new process to make flexible, conducting "nanoskins."

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Carbon nanotubes can get modified to help them pass apparently safely through bloodstreams, potentially easing past concerns about nanotube toxicity, experts to

NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Super-resilient foams made of carbon tubes only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide that act like springs could help cushion blows in artificial joints or