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Unzipping the future
November 5, 2009 

Nature coverScientists at Rice University have found a simple way to create sheets of tough, electrically conductive nanomaterial that can be used as basic elements for aircraft, flat-screen TVs, electronics and other products. The work was featured on the cover of the April 16 issue of the journal Nature.

 
Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing
November 3, 2009 
 
Rice lab leads hunt for new zeolites
November 3, 2009 
 
A little nano, a lot of oil
October 30, 2009 

Tour labJames Tour’s lab will work with M-I SWACO’s researchers to optimize the effectiveness of graphene additives to drilling fluids, also known as muds.

 
Students invite chemists everywhere to help with orphan drugs, diseases
October 27, 2009 

 
Rice scientists unveil one-of-a kind instrument
October 26, 2009 
 
Hip, HiPco hooray for Rice's pioneering nanotube process
October 22, 2009 

 
Rice scientists argue nanotubes can be treated like polymers
October 20, 2009 

Wade Adams and his colleagues make the argument that single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are polymers and should be treated as such in the journal Polymer.

 
National Academy of Sciences president to present Rorschach lecture
October 16, 2009 

CiceroneRalph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council, will present the lecture “Climate Change and Constraints on Energy Policy and Practices” at the 13th annual Harold E. Rorschach Memorial Lecture Oct. 20.

 
New Rice research lab open house
October 13, 2009 

Open House hosted jby the National Corrosion Center (NCC) and the Department of Earth Science at Rice University

 

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