TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Index

Nanotechnology articles - July 2004

Magnifying Nanotechnology
Date: 31-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...selling book, "Prey," in which a research lab creates self-replicating microscopic robots that turn against its creators, you probably view nanotechnology as a ...
Source: Managing Automation Magazine

Nanotechnology advances evoke special concerns
Date: 31-Jul-04
Excerpt: LONDON -- Substances made using nanotechnology should be considered new chemicals and undergo extra safety checks before they hit the market to ensure they do ...
Source: Indianapolis Star

Our future lies in nanotechnology
Date: 31-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...molecular level. Therefore, everything in our body and in the physical universe is already based on nanotechnology. Observation ...
Source: Hindustan Times

Experts warn on use of nanotechnology-based products
Date: 31-Jul-04
Excerpt: Products developed using nanotechnology pose health and environmental risks great enough to justify banning, experts have warned. ...
Source: Hindustan Times

Could nanotechnology be toxic?
Date: 30-Jul-04
Excerpt: Experts say substances made using nanotechnology should be tested to ensure they do not pose a threat to human health, reports Associated Press. ...
Source: ITWeb

UK : Nanotechnology: Whistle blown!
Date: 30-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...the US market was a cause for concern. What is this nanotechnology for starters? Basically, it is a technology by which scientists ...
Source: Fibre 2 Fashion

The UK Warns of Nanotech's Dangers; Rest of Europe Gears Up
Date: 30-Jul-04
Excerpt: Many of nanotechnology's ethical, health, safety and environmental questions were raised in a report released yesterday by the UK's Royal Society and the Royal ...
Source: Innovation World bioTechConnect

Report Urges Nanotechnology Safety Checks
Date: 30-Jul-04
Excerpt: LONDON - Substances made using nanotechnology should be considered new chemicals and undergo extra safety checks before they hit the market to ensure they do ...
Source: Yahoo News

Tech patches up dispute with donor of $36 million
Date: 30-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...of incredible importance to the state's economic development: An anonymous donor was pledging $36 million toward the construction of a nanotechnology center at ...
Source: MSNBC

Nanotechnology Precaution Is Urged
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: The invisibly small particles and fibers that scientists are producing in the hot new field of nanotechnology pose health and environmental risks great enough ...
Source: Washington Post

NanoSonic and Lockheed partner on nanotechnology
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...to develop nanotechnology materials and coatings. Nanotechnology involves the manipulation of materials on an extremely small scale. ...
Source: Richmond Times Dispatch -

Size does matter, says risk study of nanotechnology
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology offers vast benefits but there is a need for more research into the possible threats to health, an expert group warned the Government yesterday. ...
Source: Telegraph.co.uk

FEI Company Reports Record Bookings and Sales for the Second ...
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: We remain positive about the potential for further revenue growth in 2004," concluded Sarkissian. "Our leadership in tools for nanotechnology continues to ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release) -

Nanotechnology poses threat to health, say scientists
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: New laws are needed to ensure that vanishingly small particles made by the nanotechnology industry do not pose a threat to humans or the environment, experts ...
Source: Guardian,

Report: Nanotechnology needs regulation
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Nanotechnology -- which operates on an almost unimaginably small scale -- offers tremendous potential, but regulation is needed to ...
Source: CNN

Report urges nanotechnology safety checks
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: LONDON -- Substances made using nanotechnology should be considered new chemicals and undergo extra safety checks before they hit the market to ensure they do ...
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer,

Nanotechnology Offers Potential to Bring Jobs, Investment and ...
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...“Nanotechnology offers the potential to bring high quality jobs, investment and prosperity to the UK. It also has the ability ...
Source: The Scotsman

Laws 'Needed to Control Nanotechnology'
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: PA News. New laws are needed to ensure that nanotechnology does not pose a future threat to human health, experts said today. A Government ...
Source: The Scotsman -

Nanotechnology tries to fix image problem
Date: 29-Jul-04
Excerpt: Scientists are calling for a public debate into nanotechnology to dispel fears about the new science and prevent it being labelled as "another GM". ...
Source: Independent -

Commission to Deliver Verdict on Nanotechnology
Date: 28-Jul-04
Excerpt: A Government-backed study will deliver today the definitive verdict on nanotechnology, the emerging science that involves manipulating matter on an ultra-small ...
Source: The Scotsman,

Tiny bumps may mean big strides
Date: 27-Jul-04
Excerpt: Now, researchers at the University of Alberta and the National Institute of Nanotechnology have made a discovery that could make it less likely that patients ...
Source: The Globe and Mail -

NanoDynamics Raises $12 Million in Second Round Financing
Date: 27-Jul-04
Excerpt: BUFFALO, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2004--NanoDynamics, Inc., a leading company in the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology and a manufacturer of ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

NanoMarkets, LC Releases New White Paper on Nanotechnology Trends
Date: 27-Jul-04
Excerpt: STERLING, Va., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- NanoMarkets, LC, a leading nanotechnology industry market research and analysis firm based here, today announced the ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release) -

The promise and perils of the nanotech revolution
Date: 26-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology could ravage the environment, eliminate jobs and lead to frightening new weapons of war. Those are two extreme takes ...
Source: San Francisco Chronicle -

NANOWorld - Education, Application, and Use
Date: 26-Jul-04
Excerpt: NANOWorld is the first nanotechnology conference and exposition devoted to commercial applications, practical solutions, and cutting edge products of the core ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

New MRG Report Tracks Nanotechnology R&D and Marketing
Date: 26-Jul-04
Excerpt: SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the early 1960's, popular interest in nanotechnology has translated into both political action and increasing ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release) -

Company Profile for tinytechjobs
Date: 23-Jul-04
Excerpt: Business Wire)-- tinytechjobs is a unique global career website devoted to jobs in nanotechnology, microtechnology, biotechnology, and information technology. ...
Source: TMCnet -

Emerging nanomedicine technologies could dramatically transform ...
Date: 23-Jul-04
Excerpt: Therefore, there is an urgent need for standardized manufacturing techniques; only then can nanotechnology become ubiquitous in everyday applications. ...
Source: News-Medical.net -

Bucyrus returns to public market; Lumera prices
Date: 23-Jul-04
Excerpt: NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Mining equipment maker Bucyrus rose above its offering price and nanotechnology firm Lumera stepped up to the plate Friday as two more IPOs ...
Source: Investor's Business Daily (subscription) -

Is Nanotechnology for Real?
Date: 23-Jul-04
Excerpt: Most articles about nanotechnology begin with the standard discussion of "less than the thickness of one hair" and "one nanometer is so many billionths of a ...
Source: Motley Fool -

DoD spending bill includes nanotechnology funds
Date: 23-Jul-04
Excerpt: WASHINGTON — Congress approved funding this week included in a military appropriations bill to continue nanotechnology research at the University of Oregon. ...
Source: EE Times Online (subscription) -

Israel Line
Date: 22-Jul-04
Excerpt: The government and the country's universities plan to invest $11.3 million in nanotechnology research in 2004-05, HA'ARETZ reported. ...
Source: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs -

Microsystems and Nanotechnology Masters ( MSc ) and Postgraduate ...
Date: 22-Jul-04
Excerpt: · Lecture Programme. Lectures, tutorials and assignments covering both the technical aspects and training in technology management and transferable skills. ...
Source: Azom.com -

Ultratech Announces Second Quarter 2004 Results
Date: 22-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...(Nasdaq:UTEK) designs, manufactures and markets photolithography equipment used worldwide in the fabrication of semiconductor and nanotechnology devices, and ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

GEMZ Corp. Details Progress Using Nanofilms Combining Photovoltaic ...
Date: 22-Jul-04
Excerpt: BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2004--GEMZ Corp., (OTC: GMZP - News) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, International Nanotechnology Corporation (INC ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Hon Hai breaks ground on R&D center
Date: 20-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...center in Tucheng, Taipei County. The center will focus on nanotechnology and precision-optical machinery. "We hope the establishment ...
Source: Taipei Times -

Nanotechnology About to Change Many Industries
Date: 20-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...to author and consultant Jack Uldrich, these questions are not matters of "if," but "when," thanks to an emerging field of science known as nanotechnology. ...
Source: Oswego County Business Magazine -

Prepare to Cope: Much Less is Much More in the New Era of ...
Date: 20-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...moves from science-fiction to the university laboratories to modern industry, it is estimated that 2 million workers trained in nanotechnology and nanoscience ...
Source: My Wise County -

Zyvex Exceeds Sales Expectations; Company Reports Seventh ...
Date: 20-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...very pleased to watch Zyvex's rapid transformation from a small research center to one of the largest and most promising commercial nanotechnology companies in ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release) -

Precision Optics Corporation Announces Successful Completion of ...
Date: 20-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...offering to expand its line of medical and industrial endoscopic products, to develop instruments for single-molecule and nanotechnology applications, and for ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release) -

Green Goo: The New Nano-Threat
Date: 19-Jul-04
Excerpt: Peterson, president of the Foresight Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the potential benefits and anticipating potential risks of nanotechnology ...
Source: Wired News -

Advancements in Micro Technology Catapult MEMS-Based Applications
Date: 19-Jul-04
Excerpt: ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2004--The burgeoning interest in micro technologies, partly triggered by the rapid growth of nanotechnology, is opening ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Experts to explore advanced nanotechnology at new conference
Date: 17-Jul-04
Excerpt: Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank, is sponsoring the 1st Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology: Research ...
Source: ScienceBlog.com -

Molecular Imaging Receives Prestigious R&D 100 Award for Technical ...
Date: 17-Jul-04
Excerpt: A breakthrough tool for AFM, PicoTREC allows researchers to pursue new avenues of discovery in all areas of nanotechnology and nanoscience. ...
Source: PR Web (press release) -

New UAF facility to produce microscopic 'machines'
Date: 17-Jul-04
Excerpt: FAIRBANKS -- Nicholas Colella likes to compare the future of nanotechnology to the time when he was a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, where steel provided the ...
Source: Anchorage Daily News (subscription) -

CBI's Nanoparticles Symposium Added to October NANO Week Lineup
Date: 17-Jul-04
Excerpt: ..."NANO Week is expected to bring hundreds of nanotechnology researchers, clinicians and entrepreneurs to Northeast Ohio, and our nanoparticles conference will ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

A&T engineering professors eye spot at GSO research park
Date: 17-Jul-04
Excerpt: We're certainly interested in working more with them," said David Carroll, director of the Nanotechnology Center at Wake Forest University. ...
Source: MSNBC -

Experts to Explore Advanced Nanotechnology at New Conference ...
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: PALO ALTO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- July 16, 2004 -- Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank, is sponsoring the 1st ...
Source: TMCnet -

Betting big on nanotech
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanosys Inc., an early-stage nanotechnology company, is going public at a price that suggests investors are willing to bet heavily on the relatively unproven ...
Source: San Francisco Chronicle -

US Losing Nanoweapon Race to China Lev Navrozov
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...of her four-page testimony of April 9, 2003, to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, allocating funds for nanotechnology, Christine Peterson ...
Source: NewsMax.com -

New group to spur convergence of technologies
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: Now a group of local biotech professionals called NanoBioNexus plans to add another element into the mix: nanotechnology, the emerging field of manufacturing ...
Source: North County Times -

TECH TICKER
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanosys, the Palo Alto start-up that is being closely watched as a bellwether for a fledgling nanotechnology industry, moved a step closer to going public. ...
Source: San Jose Mercury News (subscription) -

Seeing Nanoscapes
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: AFMs have since helped propel the science and engineering of nanotechnology to what many now view as a latter-day industrial revolution. ...
Source: Fortune (subscription) -

Method tests strength of advanced thin films
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: Examples include semiconductors, solar cells, fuel cells, coatings, magnetic storage devices and prospective nanotechnology devices. ...
Source: EurekAlert -

Recycling pig's bone for use in humans?
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: From May last year, her team at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) began its efforts to improve preparatory procedures for a medical ...
Source: Straits Times -

Nanotechnology will impact significantly on the majority of ...
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology is emerging worldwide as a key enabling technology that will impact significantly on the majority of sectors comprising the Irish economy ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanotechnology seen as solution for growing need of data storage
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology soon could emerge as a universal storage solution for a broad range of devices. A report released today by research ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Research and Markets: The Nanotechnology Opportunity Report
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com) has announced the addition of The Nanotechnology Opportunity Report to their offering. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Biophan Technologies Files 10-QSB for First Quarter of Fiscal 2005 ...
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: It is enabled by nanotechnology which provides the ability to put thousands and thousands of small semi-conductor nodes that convert heat to electricity in a ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Emergency Filtration Products to Commence Nano-Enhanced Filter ...
Date: 16-Jul-04
Excerpt: Emergency Filtration Products Inc. (EFP) (OTCBB: EMFP) announces that it will commence testing its licensed nanotechnology-enhanced 2H filter media in ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

GE made carbon nanotube-based diode only 10 atoms wide, capable ...
Date: 15-Jul-04
Excerpt: The company announced its nanotechnology breakthrough as a cover story for "Applied Physics Letters." Unlike traditional diodes, GE's carbon nanotube device ...
Source: PhysOrg.com -

Animal bone implants that resemble natural bone
Date: 15-Jul-04
Excerpt: A team of researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has moved one step closer to developing an ideal bone scaffold for ...
Source: News-Medical.net -

Nanotechnology ‘may be worth €13bn’
Date: 15-Jul-04
Excerpt: Science, Technology and Innovation (ICSTI), which is part of enterprise policy agency Forfas, said Ireland was well placed to become a centre for nanotechnology ...
Source: IrishExaminer.com (subscription) -

Sematech exec promotes nanotechnology infrastructure
Date: 15-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...— International Sematech's senior fellow for lithography offered an upbeat assessment of the prospects for the emerging nanotechnology business during the ...
Source: EE Times Online (subscription) -

Royal folly
Date: 15-Jul-04
Excerpt: LAST weekend, readers of the Independent on Sunday were treated to an article warning them over the risks posed by the science of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Economist (subscription) -

Animal bone ‘ideal' for reconstructive surgery
Date: 15-Jul-04
Excerpt: The scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBM) have prepared an implantable anorganic scaffold that has the "original chemical and ...
Source: Borneo Bulletin -

Americans Encouraged by Prospects of Nanotechnology
Date: 15-Jul-04
Excerpt: Despite lacking concrete knowledge about nanotechnology, most Americans hold a generally positive view of the emerging science and believe the technology’s ...
Source: AZoNano.com -

The Nanotechnology Industry, an estimated $961 million for FY 2004
Date: 15-Jul-04
Excerpt: Research and Markets announces the addition of this new report entitled "US Market & Industry Nanotechnology R&D and Marketing 2004" to its offerings. ...
Source: Press World (press release) -

Nanotechnology to take off: ICSTI
Date: 14-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology is emerging worldwide as a key enabling technology that will impact significantly on the majority of sectors comprising the Irish economy ...
Source: RTE News -

Nanotechnology offers Irish opportunity
Date: 14-Jul-04
Excerpt: Launching its statement on nanotechnology today, the organisation said that nanomaterials and devices presented enterprises with opportunities to enhance their ...
Source: Business World -

WisBusiness: CEO says state ready for nanotechnology boom
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: CEO John Biondi told members of the MIT Alumni Club Sunday that Wisconsin has the potential to become a center for the rapidly expanding nanotechnology market. ...
Source: Wisbusiness.com -

Scientists rebuke Prince Charles
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: The Prince of Wales received a stinging rebuke from the scientific community on Sunday after declaring that ongoing research into nanotechnology could result ...
Source: The Statesman -

NVE Quarterly Results Conference Call Scheduled for Wednesday ...
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: NVE is a leader in the practical commercialization of spintronics; a nanotechnology which many experts believe represents the next generation of ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release) -

Chip Vendors Skittish About Potential Industry Bubble
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: Some attendees said many of the new products shown at Semicon—several pointed to the hype around nanotechnology advances in processor manufacturing—were ...
Source: eWeek -

Patent for Coated Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Ropes Awarded ...
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...of CNI. Small diameter carbon nanotubes are an example of a nanotechnology that is now reaching the commercial arena. These nanostructures ...
Source: AZoNano.com -

Taiwan gives its Nanotech Industry a Push
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: Taiwan News reported last week that the country's nanotechnology industry leaders are collaborating with top science officials to form an industry organization ...
Source: Innovation World bioTechConnect -

THAI-INDIA TRADE: Value forecast to double in 2004
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...partnerships with India to develop international trade and investment, as well as research, especially in biotechnology, nanotechnology, microelectronics and ...
Source: The Nation, Thailand -

MWG Biotech and Innovadyne Technologies Inc. to Offer Automated ...
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: ..."Integrating Nanodrop on our innovative Theonyx system opens the world of automated nanotechnology to our customers," says Dr. Wolfgang Pieken, CSO, Marketing ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Konarka Named to AlwaysOn List of Top 100 Private Companies for ...
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: Konarka is using its unique photovoltaic nanotechnology to create sources of renewable power for the next generation of communications devices," said Howard ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Government to announce plans to ease shopping congestion
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: He added that in deference to *, the Royal formerly known as Prince Charles, the microchip will not use nanotechnology, or lead to any genetic modification of ...
Source: Deadbrain (satire) -

CBI's Nanoparticles Symposium Added to October NANO Week Lineup
Date: 13-Jul-04
Excerpt: ..."NANO Week is expected to bring hundreds of nanotechnology researchers, clinicians and entrepreneurs to Northeast Ohio, and our nanoparticles conference will ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release) -

BOC Edwards and IMEC Announce Joint Technology Program on ...
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: BOC Edwards announced today it has established a joint development program with IMEC, a leading independent nanoelectronics and nanotechnology research center ...
Source: TMCnet

General Electric, Celera Genomics and Celera Diagnostics Announce ...
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...years, and is now focused on developing breakthrough innovations in areas such as molecular medicine, alternative energy, nanotechnology, advanced propulsion ...
Source: TMCnet

Charles accused of 'nano scare'
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: Scientists accused Prince Charles of causing an unfounded scare today over his latest warnings about the new science of nanotechnology. ...
Source: This is London

Changing the way we watch TV
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: Westaim also owns Nucryst Pharmaceuticals Corp., one of the first companies to translate nanotechnology, the science of extremely small materials, into health ...
Source: Toronto Star

Will Houston remain the oil, energy capital of the US?
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: I think what’s really remarkably interesting is the implications of nanotechnology, sciences at the nano-scale, to impact the effectiveness of those ...
Source: News 24 Houston

PRINCE'S FEARS ON TINY-TECH
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: But he complained only five per cent of the EU's nanotechnology research budget was being spent on examining the environmental, social, and ethical dimensions. ...
Source: The Mirror

Friends of IP
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: Division.". "Altair is one of the nanotechnology leaders poised to make a tremendous impact on the biotech industry," said Dr. Bazinet. ...
Source: Inside Paint

Nanotechnology Activities at Bayer MaterialsScience
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology is one of the most important key technologies of the 21st century. It does offer excellent opportunities for developing ...
Source: AZoNano.com

Oak Ridge returns to roots to explore the neutron
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: As materials engineering bores deeper into the small, small world of nanotechnology, however, science has demanded clearer, more detailed views of atomic ...
Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription)

Alternative energies are looking good again
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...are developing chlorophyll-like molecules that can convert sunlight into energy, said Josh Wolfe, a principal at Lux Capital, a nanotechnology venture firm. ...
Source: CNET News.com

NanoMarkets, LC Releases New White Paper on Nanomemory and ...
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: STERLING, Va., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- NanoMarkets, LC, a leading nanotechnology industry market research and analysis firm based here, today announced the ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

From the July 9, 2004 print edition
Date: 12-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanoparticles Application Center (NAC) hosts a Nanotechnology Colloquium from 11:30 am-1 pm at the Law offices of Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC. ...
Source: Austin Business Journal

New Worlds: The information highway meets the road
Date: 10-Jul-04
Excerpt: Gold-tipped nanocrystals that can be used as highly efficient building blocks for devices in the emerging nanotechnology revolution have been developed by ...
Source: Jerusalem Post

Building a better car - one atom at a time
Date: 10-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology, which involves working at a scale more than 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, is about to revolutionize the way cars are ...
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer

Prince warns against new 'thalidomide' disaster
Date: 10-Jul-04
Excerpt: Writing exclusively in today's Independent on Sunday, the Prince sounds the alarm on the little-known science of nanotechnology, which manipulates materials one ...
Source: Independent

Nanotech field gets $3m govt boost
Date: 10-Jul-04
Excerpt: By CHRISTOPHER HWANG. SINGAPORE is honing its edge in the field of nanoscience and will invest $3 million to fund scholarships in nanotechnology. ...
Source: Business Times Singapore (subscription)

Stamping Out Good Science
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...bent. Consider the debate raging through the fledgling field of nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic level. ...
Source: Wired News

Tech sector picks up
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...able to do more things. "My long-term goal remains to complete Year 12 and then go on to uni to study nanotechnology. At the end of ...
Source: Advertiser

On the move, July 9
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: The Colorado Nanotechnology Initiative, an independent organization that promotes the development of nanotechnology in Colorado, hired Sage Public Relations ...
Source: Rocky Mountain News

UCR Scientists Show High Schoolers Big Possibilities in Smallest ...
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: 35 area high school students and teachers to the junction of science fiction and science fact recently to show how advances in nanotechnology are expanding ...
Source: UC Riverside (press release)

RenewableEnergyStocks.com Announces New Featured Company: New York ...
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...of company and industry updates, investment research and developing trends in key areas such as Homeland Security, Renewable Energy, Nanotechnology and more.
Source: Market Wire (press release)

Altair Nanotechnologies Announces New Board Member Appointment
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: Division.". "Altair is one of the nanotechnology leaders poised to make a tremendous impact on the biotech industry," said Dr. Bazinet. ...
Source: Market Wire (press release)

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) and IMEC Collaborate on Immersion ...
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: CLEAN TRACK ACT is a trademark of Tokyo Electron Limited. IMEC is a world leading independent research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. ...
Source: Japan Corporate News (press release)

3i backs nanotechnology start-up in catalytic converter market
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: British venture capital fund 3i has helped San Francisco-based start-up company Nanostellar secure $3 million in funding to enable the 15-person company to ...
Source: Auto Industry

Singapore intends to be at forefront of nanoscience
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...of nanoscience, and has set aside more than 3 million Singapore dollars (about 1.76 million US dollars) worth of scholarships to develop nanotechnology. ...
Source: Xinhua

World’s First Nanotechnology and Water Conference to Be Held in ...
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...the NanoWater conference will address one of the world’s most pressing problems: the need for clean, safe, affordable water and how nanotechnology can help ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release)

Sono-Tek Announces Record First Quarter Earnings
Date: 9-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...systems for medical device customers and other customers in a diverse range of industries which include food processing, nanotechnology applications, and plate ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

EV Group Unveils NanoAlign Technology, New Mask Aligner at SEMICON ...
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...a global supplier of wafer bonders, aligners, photoresist coaters, cleaners and inspection systems for semiconductor, MEMS and emerging nanotechnology markets. ...
Source: TMCnet

Investment and Commercialization the Focus of Upcoming nanoSIG ...
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: MENLO PARK, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- July 7, 2004 -- Nanotechnology investment and commercialization will be the topic of the July 14 event sponsored by ...
Source: Internet Telephony Magazine

GE DIPS ITS TOES IN NANOTUBE POOL
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: Ji-Ung Lee, a scientist who works in the research center's Nanotechnology Advanced Research Laboratory, developed the nanotube diode. ...
Source: Small Times

Energy Tech Forum See Investor Interest on the Rise, July 19-20 ...
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: Investments -- Corporate Venturing in the Energy Tech Space -- Opportunities in Energy Management, Advance Materials and Nanotechnology; Distributed Generation ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

New Scientist
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: But now a more efficient nano-diode has been created by Ji-Ung Lee, and colleagues at the Nanotechnology Advanced Technology Program at General Electric's ...
Source: New Scientist

GE Flexes Its Nanotech Muscle
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: When Carl Wherrett and John Yelovich provided their excellent commentary on nanotechnology, all the usual electronics suspects were there: IBM (NYSE: IBM ...
Source: Motley Fool

Industry and institutions combine to push Taiwan's nanotechnology
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: In a bid to maintain a competitive edge in the rapidly advancing nanotechnology market, leaders of Taiwan's nanotechnology companies are joining forces with ...
Source: eTaiwan News

UC-Run Lab Projects Collect Seven Coveted Technology Awards
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...directed the development of the world’s smallest reported synthetic motor, called a synthetic rotational nanomotor, a contribution to nanotechnology that can ...
Source: The Daily Californian

The Future of Nanotechnology
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: With its seemingly endless possibilities for health care, manufacturing, and electronics, nanotechnology is inspiring major research efforts around the globe. ...
Source: AZoNano.com

New Study from TheInfoPro details how Fortune 1000 Information ...
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: In addition to Information Security, TheInfoPro studies the Storage Networking and Management, CRM, Networking and Nanotechnology Tools markets. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Tegal Corporation Announces the Addition of Two Senior Executives ...
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of integrated circuits and nanotechnology devices, today ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Harris & Harris Group Notes NEUROMetrix IPO Announcement
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...is a publicly traded venture capital company that now makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Presse Energie/Presse ?conomique
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...applications. Konarka's photovoltaic nanotechnology is focused on delivering lightweight, flexible, scalable and manufacturable products. ...
Source: Le Revenu

Webcast Alert: Nano-Proprietary, Inc. Announces Its July 8, 2004 ...
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...is a premier research and development organization dedicated to developing applications for nanotechnology with an extremely strong position in the field of ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Accelrys Announces Date of First Quarter, Fiscal 2005 Financial ...
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...simulation, and the management and mining of scientific data used by biologists, chemists and materials scientists, including nanotechnology researchers for ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

GE publishes research on nano-diode breakthrough
Date: 8-Jul-04
Excerpt: The discovery was made by the GE Nanotechnology Advanced Technology program and was reported in the July 5 cover story of Applied Physics Letters. ...
Source: Albany Business Review

Building your next car, one atom at a time
Date: 7-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology, which involves working at a scale more than 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, is about to revolutionize the way cars are ...
Source: USA Today

Turning Science Fiction Into Fact
Date: 7-Jul-04
Excerpt: Here scientists are among a handful across the world helping to turn science fiction into a fact of the future through the science of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Innovations-Report

Zyvex Hires North American Sales Manager; Nanotechnology Leader ...
Date: 7-Jul-04
Excerpt: RICHARDSON, Texas, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Zyvex Corporation, the first molecular nanotechnology company, today announced the addition of Lance Criscuolo to its ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Think small in defining nanobiotechnology
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...moments. In the first, "Getting to the particulars of nanotech," Jennifer Bjorhus effectively introduces readers to nanotechnology. ...
Source: Pioneer Press (Subscription)

Biotechs are back with a vengeance
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: These included pSivida, which rose 387 per cent due to progress in developing its nanotechnology products, and Progen Industries, whose share price climbed 368 ...
Source: The Age

Solar cells for the masses
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology has allowed for plastics and nanoparticles to be mixed together in a solution and printed onto a plastic surface. ...
Source: Geek.com

KLA-Tencor offering delivers surface planarity process control
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: The system also incorporates an AFM head developed jointly with SII NanoTechnology Inc. and a supplier of scanning probe instruments. ...
Source: Eetasia.com (subscription)

DSM Awards for Chemistry and Technology 2004
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...cheaply. His research project was a multidisciplinary blend of physics, chemistry, nanotechnology and biomedical technology. Frederix ...
Source: Chemie.de (press release)

With an eye toward the future, Penn State is taking a look back
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: Our nation still needs us today. New areas of knowledge continue to open to us -- nanotechnology, genetics, information technology, smart materials. ...
Source: Centre Daily Times

Nanosight Nanoparticle Detection System Launched; Innovative ...
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: Tim Harper, head of London-based nanotechnology business intelligence specialists Cientifica Ltd and a Director of the Company added that "with nanoscale ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Cypress Announces Silicon Valley Technology Center
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...develop novel silicon technology for integrated circuits, microelectromechanical systems, and applications incorporating new nanotechnology and biotechnology ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Artist: Lynn Hershman ( United States )
Date: 6-Jul-04
Excerpt: Biography: The 21st century arrived with a Pandora's box of ideas, tools and technologies such as genetics, nanotechnology and robotics that will affect the ...
Source: Absolutearts.com

Nanotechnology-based applications are accelerating the ...
Date: 5-Jul-04
Excerpt: At the same time, the adoption of nanotechnology-based applications by large therapeutic and diagnostic companies is accelerating the development of ...
Source: News-Medical.net

From the July 2, 2004 print edition
Date: 4-Jul-04
Excerpt: 25. Nanoparticles Application Center (NAC) hosts a Nanotechnology Colloquium from 11:30 am-1 pm at the Law offices of Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC. ...
Source: Austin Business Journal

Phaze-9 Corporation Tapped to Increase Awareness of DC ...
Date: 3-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...offices in San Jose, the firm has provided construction project management services to leading and start-up semiconductor, nanotechnology and biotechnology ...
Source: Emediawire (press release)

Are nanotech fabrics any good?
Date: 3-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...favourite white shirt sporting an ugly, dull brown stain post-wash are minimised if you are wearing shirts made of fabric that is treated with nanotechnology. ...
Source: Rediff

Advancements in Micro Technology Catapult MEMS-based Applications ...
Date: 1-Jul-04
Excerpt: Frost says burgeoning interest in micro technologies, partly triggered by the rapid growth of nanotechnology, is opening up a floodgate of opportunities for ...
Source: Tekrati Industry Analyst Reporter (press release)

Nanotechnology invading europe : Spread the red carpet - and ...
Date: 1-Jul-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology is showing promising developments in many areas and may benefit our health and welfare. However, we should be aware ...
Source: AZoNano.com

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation Forms Strategic Alliance with ...
Date: 1-Jul-04
Excerpt: ...entered into a strategic alliance with NanoProducts Corporation, a privately-held technology leader in nanoscale particles and related nanotechnology products. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

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Nanotechnology comprises technological developments on the nanometer scale, usually 0.1 to 100 nm. (One nanometer equals one thousandth of a micrometer or one millionth of a millimeter.) The term has sometimes been applied to microscopic technology. This article discusses nanotechnology, nanoscience, and hypothetical molecular nanotechnology.

The term nanotechnology is sometimes conflated with molecular nanotechnology (also known as "MNT"), a hypothetical, advanced form of nanotechnology believed by some to be achievable at some point in the future, based on productive nanosystems. Molecular nanotechnology would fabricate precise structures using mechanosynthesis to perform molecular manufacturing. The hypothetical molecular nanotechnology, though not yet existent, is posited by its proponents to have a great impact on society if realized. Current debate on whether molecular nanotechnology is likely to be developed can be seen on the web at the weblog of Richard Jones and other sites mentioned therein.

More broadly, nanotechnology includes the many techniques used to create structures at a size scale below 100 nm, including those used for fabrication of nanotubes and nanowires, those used in semiconductor fabrication such as deep ultraviolet lithography, electron beam lithography, focused ion beam machining, atomic layer deposition, and molecular vapor deposition, and further including molecular self-assembly techniques such as those employing di-block copolymers.

The term nanoscience is used to describe the interdisciplinary fields of science devoted to the study of nanoscale phenomena employed in nanotechnology. This is the world of atoms, molecules, macromolecules, quantum dots, and macromolecular assemblies, and is dominated by surface effects such as Van der Waals force attraction, hydrogen bonding, electronic charge, ionic bonding, covalent bonding, hydrophobicity, hydrophilicity, and quantum mechanical tunneling, to the virtual exclusion of macro-scale effects such as turbulence and inertia.

The size scale of nanoscience and nanotechnology make them susceptible to quantum-based phenomena, leading to often counterintuitive results. Furthermore, the vastly increased ratio of surface area to volume opens new possibilities in surface-based science, such as catalysis.

Nanotechnology is already having a considerable impact on the field of electronics, where the drive towards miniaturization continues and transistor gate lengths of 65 nm are routinely fabricated in prototype circuits. The device density of modern computer electronics (i.e. the number of transistors per unit area) has grown exponentially, and this trend is expected to continue for some time (see Moore's law). However, both economics and fundamental electronic limitations prevent this trend from continuing indefinitely. Some see further development of nanotechnology outside of the semiconductor roadmap, and the hoped-for advent of molecular nanotechnology, as the next logical steps for continued advances in computer architecture, while others are less sanguine.




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