Look here for recent news articles about TDA Research:

March 2005:
TDA to manufacture fullerenes for FCC America to serve the U.S. market.

February 2005:
TDA licenses its low-cost technology for producing carbon electrodes from carbohydrates (sugars) to CDT Systems, Inc. of Dallas, TX for use in capacitive deionization and desalinization.

December 2004:
TDA's On-Demand Releasable Corrosion Inhibitors are featured on the Missile Defense Agency website.

September 2004:
Thermally Conductive Metal-Tube/Carbon-Composite Joints  TDA's method for joining materials with different coefficients of thermal expansion is featured in NASA Tech Briefs. Download article

April 12, 2004:
NSF announces TDA’s new family of conducting prepolymers

January 2004:
Direct Oxidation Technology announced in Oil. Gas & Petrochemical Equipment (January 2004, Vol. 50, No. 3)

October 27, 2003:
Small Times profiles Nano-C, TDA and Frontier Carbon

August 11, 2003:
Fullerenes by the Ton: Mitshubishi's Frontier Carbon Opens 40 metric ton/year fullerene plant using TDA reactors and technology (Chemical & Engineering News)

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July 13, 2002:
Buckymedicine: Coming soon to a pharmacy near you? Sidebar: Better Contrast? Fullerene-based agents could give physicians a new view The cover story in Science News discusses promising new medical applications of fullerenes.  The sidebar article details the opportunity for using endohedral metallofullerenes as the active materials in clinical diagnostic agents, including TDA's Gd@C₆₀-based paramagnetic metallofullerene compounds as relaxation agents for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

June 17, 2002:
Cagey Chemistry: TDA featured in C&EN article discussing progress on endohedral fullerenes (Chemical & Engineering News) This article features TDA Research’s developments on gadolinium (Gd) - containing endohedral metallofullerenes as paramagnetic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast enhancing agents. TDA’s advances in using Gd metallofullerene materials include separation of the Gd@C₆₀ species and derivatization of Gd@C₆₀ with multiple carboxylate functionalities. An in vivo MR imaging study of carboxylated Gd@C₆₀ using a rodent model revealed that this MRI agent provides good contrast while importantly not targeting the organs of the reticuloendothelial system. Gd@C₆₀-based MRI contrast agents have the potential to be safer than standard Gd compounds due to the sequestration of the Gd ion inside of the spherical fullerene cage.

January 21, 2002:
TDA Research to build a flame-based fullerene production system for Frontier Carbon (Chemical & Engineering News) Paragraph in Business Roundup section of Business Concentrates highlighting the plans made by Frontier Carbon (a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical and the venture fund Nanotech Partners) to have TDA Research construct a combustion fullerene production system by Spring 2002.