All entries for Tuesday 06 May 2008

May 06, 2008

Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/nanotube_production_leaps/

Carbon nanotubes’ potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers in the University of Warwick’s Department of Chemistry have found a way of producing carbon nanotubes in which they instantly form a highly sensitive ready made electric circuit.

Eleanor Lovell : 06 May 2008 10:05 | Tags: Press Releases | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

Double Costa Winner Success for 1st Ever National Student Writers’ Festival

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/double_costa_winner/

PENCILFest, the UK’s first ever national student writers’ festival is celebrating striking double Costa prize gold as both Costa Book Prize winner A.L. Kennedy and Costa First Book Prize winner Catherine O’Flynn have agreed to appear at this unique free student run literary festival.

Eleanor Lovell : 06 May 2008 10:04 | Tags: Press Releases | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem