What’s new in nano
Every dated step in the nanotechnology we track, newest first. Each one says what happened, why it matters and how far it is from your life, with its source. New ones arrive every morning.
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June 2026
- Nanotube additives
Batteries containing OCSiAl's nanotubes were powering about a million electric vehicles, and Volkswagen's battery company PowerCo picked OCSiAl as a supplier for its Unified Cell.
Everyday life
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Dec 2025
- Aerogels
Aspen Aerogels sold $168.9 million of its PyroThin battery heat barriers in 2025, down from $306.8 million in 2024, mostly to GM.
Approved or on sale
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Oct 2025
- MOF carbon capture
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metal-organic frameworks, citing uses that include capturing carbon dioxide.
Real-world testing
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March 2025
- 2D chips
A Fudan University team reported WUJI in Nature: a 32-bit processor built from 5,900 transistors made of atom-thin MoS2, far beyond the previous record of 115.
Lab discovery
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Nov 2023
- MOF carbon capture
BASF said it was the first company to make a MOF at a scale of several hundred tons a year, for Svante's carbon capture filters.
Real-world testing
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Aug 2019
- Nanotube chips
MIT researchers reported in Nature a 16-bit microprocessor built from carbon nanotube transistors.
Working prototype