TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Index

Nanotechnology articles - March 2004

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (2)
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology presents a whole new spectrum of opportunities to build device components and systems for entirely new space architectures.
Source: AllAfrica.com -

NanoHorizons and Arrow International Collaborate on ...
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: Arrow's experience in the biomedical industry is invaluable to our efforts to bring nanotechnology to market in unique products, critical to the continuing ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Nanotechnology Used to ``Shrink'' the White House
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...professors have made a White House 1/100,000 the size of the original to honor President Bush's recent signing of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Science Column
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: Jurassic Park. Now scientists have come up with evidence that messing with nanotechnology can literally do your head in. Tests have ...
Source: Edinburgh Evening News -

So Much for a Bullish Quarter
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: Merrill Lynch released a huge report on nanotechnology that began, "we believe nanotechnology is the next major step in the technology space." I was expecting ...
Source: Fortune (subscription) -

Incentives from city sway high-tech startup
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: Stronger airplane wings and lightweight equipment for space exploration are just two of the many possible applications for nanotechnology, the science of ...
Source: Greensboro News Record -

Russian competition of youth projects on domestic development of ...
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotech Information Services Ltd, Institute of Nanotechnology of International Conversion Fund, and Youth Science Society announced start of Competition of ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Registration now open for November SEMI NanoForum - Named One of ...
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: In a year when 200 such events are scheduled, Tradeshow Week magazine selected SEMI NanoForum as one of the top five major nanotechnology conferences of 2004. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanoparticles Can Cause Toxic Effects In An Aquatic Species
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...scientific society. "There are many potential benefits of nanotechnology, but its hazards and risks are poorly understood. This ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Man-made molecules may cause organ damage
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nonetheless, the findings underscore the growing recognition that the hot new field of nanotechnology, which federal officials have said will be at the heart ...
Source: Straits Times -

Nanoscience & NanoTechnology (2)
Date: 31-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology presents a whole new spectrum of opportunities to build device components and systems for entirely new space architectures.
Source: Vanguard -

Nanotechnology Used to ``Shrink'' the White House
Date: 30-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...professors have made a White House 1/100,000 the size of the original to honor President Bush's recent signing of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Microscope via Internet makes bugs a big deal
Date: 30-Mar-04
Excerpt: After a recent session, Lee's students said they were fascinated with the potential of nanotechnology. The emerging scientific field ...
Source: Houston Chronicle -

San Jose, Calif., Nanotechnology Firm Closes Second Round of ...
Date: 30-Mar-04
Excerpt: Mar. 30 - NeoPhotonics, a developer of optical components using nano-materials-based processes, closed a second round of funding ...
Source: Miami Herald -

Tech group aims to spur state economy
Date: 30-Mar-04
Excerpt: Ted Kulongoski will deliver a keynote address highlighting the state's efforts to develop another industry cluster, micro- and nanotechnology, by funding a ...
Source: Oregonian -

Nanotechnology Used to ``Shrink'' the White House
Date: 30-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...professors have made a White House 1/100,000 the size of the original to honor President Bush's recent signing of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and ...
Source: TMCnet -

Funai to form R&D unit in nanotechnology
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: OSAKA - On Wednesday Funai Electric Co will set up a wholly owned research and design (R&D) subsidiary for nanotechnology, with an eye toward shifting its ...
Source: Asia Times Online -

mPhase Technologies Executive Phil Thompson To Speak at FastNet ...
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...develops and commercializes next-generation telecommunications and nanotechnology solutions, delivering novel systems to the marketplace that advance ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Dewhurst, business leaders want jump start on nanotechnology
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology could create Texas' next economic revolution if science, business and government officials collaborate to carry the technology from the ...
Source: Denton Record Chronicle (subscription) -

Dewhurst, business leaders want jump start on nanotechnology
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: SAN MARCOS, Texas - Nanotechnology could create Texas' next economic revolution if science, business and government officials collaborate to carry the ...
Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram -

How big is nanotechnology's hazard?
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: Buckyballs, a spherical form of carbon discovered in 1985 and an important material in the new field of nanotechnology, can cause extensive brain damage in fish ...
Source: International Herald Tribune -

Atofina Researcher Sees Nanotechnology Hype Settling Down to ...
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: But to L. Louis Hegedus, head of research at Atofina Chemicals Inc., nanotechnology is simply going through the phases any promising new technology must. ...
Source: Miami Herald -

Business leaders want nanotechnology revolution jumpstarted
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...in the Corridor NanoBioTech Summit sought to bridge the gap between profitable businesses and cutting-edge scientific research into nanotechnology -- or the ...
Source: News 8 Austin -

Nanotechnology Network, Getting Nanotechnology to Markets
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: WASHINGTON, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nanotechnology Network explores Getting Nanotechnology to Markets with executives from Albany Nanotech, Intel ...
Source: PRNewswire (press release) -

LACK OF RESOURCES HINDERS BRAZILIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: The government created four nanoscience and nanotechnology divisions in 2001, through the Ministry of Science and Technology and the technology development ...
Source: Small Times -

Singapore Center Sets Ambitious Goals
Date: 29-Mar-04
Excerpt: By Gregory T. Huang. Efforts to commercialize nanotechnology are gaining momentum around the world. But nowhere are those efforts ...
Source: Technology Review -

Brain damage found in fish exposed to nanotechnology
Date: 28-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...helped start a revolution in materials science -- may be toxic is likely to raise environmental alarms in the burgeoning, much-hyped field of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Houston Chronicle -

Health Concerns in Nanotechnology
Date: 28-Mar-04
Excerpt: Buckyballs, a spherical form of carbon discovered in 1985 and an important material in the new field of nanotechnology, can cause extensive brain damage in fish ...
Source: New York Times -

Nanotechnology Linked to Organ Damage - Study
Date: 28-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nonetheless, the findings underscore the growing recognition that the hot new field of nanotechnology, which federal officials have said will be at the heart ...
Source: Washington Post -

Giles educators, leaders examining nanotechnology
Date: 27-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...speaker Ed Barlow came to Pulaski two months ago and addressed a group of educators and business leaders, he generated excitement with one word - nanotechnology ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanotechnology could bring end to silicon era
Date: 27-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...dollar foundries with table-top boxes, marking the end of the silicon era and the potential death of many factory-floor jobs, a nanotechnology expert predicted ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

University of Michigan's Center for Biologic Nanotechnology ...
Date: 26-Mar-04
Excerpt: Researchers at the University of Michigan's Center for Biologic Nanotechnology hope to prevent that problem by developing "smart" drug delivery devices that ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Startup Nanotechnology Firm to Bring Jobs to High Point, NC, Area
Date: 26-Mar-04
Excerpt: QuarTek International Inc., a startup company dealing in nanotechnology research, plans to invest $3 million to $4 million in a facility and equipment at ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

University of Michigan's Center for Biologic Nanotechnology ...
Date: 26-Mar-04
Excerpt: Researchers at the University of Michigan's Center for Biologic Nanotechnology hope to prevent that problem by developing "smart" drug delivery devices that ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Startup Nanotechnology Firm to Bring Jobs to High Point, NC, Area
Date: 26-Mar-04
Excerpt: QuarTek International Inc., a startup company dealing in nanotechnology research, plans to invest $3 million to $4 million in a facility and equipment at ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Hi-Tech:- IT Roadmap -- Nanoscience And Nanotechnology (1)
Date: 25-Mar-04
Excerpt: WELCOME to Nanotechnology. If it sounds ... four decades! Nanotechnology is the science and technology of materials at the nanometer scale. It ...
Source: AllAfrica.com -

Startup Nanotechnology Firm to Bring Jobs to High Point, NC, Area
Date: 25-Mar-04
Excerpt: QuarTek International Inc., a startup company dealing in nanotechnology research, plans to invest $3 million to $4 million in a facility and equipment at ...
Source: Miami Herald -

Massive Manufacturing: The Promise and Peril of Nanotechnology
Date: 25-Mar-04
Excerpt: A provocative and well-researched report by Christopher Phoenix, Director of Research at the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology and expert on technology and ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

NVE Corporation Provides MRAM Update (memory fabricated using ...
Date: 25-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...www.nve.com). MRAM is a revolutionary memory fabricated using nanotechnology which uses electron spin to encode data. MRAM has been ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Fujitsu to Spend 160 Billion Yen for New Nanotechnology Plant
Date: 25-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...spend 160 billion yen to build a new plant at its factory site in Mie Prefecture to produce logic LSI (large-scale integration) chips employing nanotechnology. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

NVE Corporation Provides MRAM Update (memory fabricated using ...
Date: 25-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...www.nve.com). MRAM is a revolutionary memory fabricated using nanotechnology which uses electron spin to encode data. MRAM has been ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Fujitsu to Spend 160 Billion Yen for New Nanotechnology Plant
Date: 25-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...spend 160 billion yen to build a new plant at its factory site in Mie Prefecture to produce logic LSI (large-scale integration) chips employing nanotechnology. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Making smart drugs that deliver the right kind of punch
Date: 24-Mar-04
Excerpt: Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Center for Biologic Nanotechnology hope to prevent that problem by developing "smart" drug delivery devices that ...
Source: Innovations-Report -

Massive Manufacturing: The Promise and Peril of Nanotechnology
Date: 24-Mar-04
Excerpt: A provocative and well-researched report by Christopher Phoenix, Director of Research at the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology and expert on technology and ...
Source: Newswise (press release) -

State earns high marks for backing technology
Date: 24-Mar-04
Excerpt: Pennsylvania ranks seventh on the SmallTimes magazine list of the top 10 nanotechnology hot spots in the United States for 2004, up from 10th place last year. ...
Source: Penn Live -

AFTER THE BILL: BUDGET A BIT SHORT, BUT NETWORK COMING TOGETHER
Date: 24-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...got the first signal of whether the money will follow the recent enactment of a bill codifying the federal government’s nanotechnology activities into law. ...
Source: Small Times -

Nanotechnology company could locate in High Point
Date: 24-Mar-04
Excerpt: High Point City Council will consider $71,400 in incentives on March 29 that could lure QuarkTek International Inc., a startup nanotechnology company, the ...
Source: Triad Business Journal -

Foresight Institute and Working In Ltd. Launch Workingin- ...
Date: 23-Mar-04
Excerpt: PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004--Foresight Institute, a nonprofit educational organization focused on molecular nanotechnology, and Working ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Sono-Tek Participates in Nanotechnology Applications Development
Date: 23-Mar-04
Excerpt: One to the University of Central Florida's Surface Engineering and Nanotechnology Laboratory and a second to NanoBioMagnetics, a developer of nanophase ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release) -

DOE Joins 2004 Corridor NanoBioTech Summit Discussions on Impact ...
Date: 22-Mar-04
Excerpt: AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2004--The impact of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research & Development Act on Texas. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

America's Most Coveted Jobs Multiply Elsewhere as 'Offshoring' ...
Date: 22-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...job prospects for the world's best and brightest could have titles like chief ethics officer, biosystems security analyst, nanotechnology specialist, robotics ...
Source: Miami Herald -

Comprehensive website for nanotechnology careers
Date: 22-Mar-04
Excerpt: Palo Alto, CA - March 22, 2004 - Foresight Institute, a nonprofit educational organization focused on molecular nanotechnology, and Working In Ltd., an ...
Source: Nanodot -

Giles educators, leaders examining nanotechnology
Date: 22-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...school board members, business and industry leaders and educators throughout South Central Tennessee about the possibility of bringing nanotechnology to Giles ...
Source: Pulaski Citizen -

Zyvex to Use SolidWorks for Microscopic Components
Date: 22-Mar-04
Excerpt: CONCORD, Massachusetts, March 22, 2004 - Nanotechnology pioneer Zyvex Corporation has standardized on SolidWorks® software to design and analyze microscopic ...
Source: Ten Links -

Regents OK centers at Tech for nanotechnology research
Date: 20-Mar-04
Excerpt: Ruch said. Nanotechnology means research at the nanoscale which is about one-thousandth the width of a human hair. The technology ...
Source: Rapid City Journal -

NVE Corporation Provides MRAM Update
Date: 19-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...www.nve.com). MRAM is a revolutionary memory fabricated using nanotechnology which uses electron spin to encode data. MRAM has been ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

Semiconductor Industry Association Presents Congressional ...
Date: 19-Mar-04
Excerpt: ..."Congressman Boehlert's leadership was critical to the successful passage of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act -- landmark ...
Source: Business Wire (press release) -

NM Praised for Nanotechnology Research
Date: 19-Mar-04
Excerpt: New Mexico ranks ahead of every state except California and Massachusetts in a business magazine's top-10 list of centers of nanotechnology and microsystems ...
Source: Miami Herald -

Fujitsu to Spend 160 Billion Yen for New Nanotechnology Plant
Date: 19-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...spend 160 billion yen to build a new plant at its factory site in Mie Prefecture to produce logic LSI (large-scale integration) chips employing nanotechnology. ...
Source: Miami Herald -

Small Times Guest Columnist
Date: 19-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...if you poke around on the Internet, you’ll find a handful of articles and marketing materials that explain to the fairer gender how nanotechnology is helping ...
Source: Small Times -

VIRGINIA WAREHOUSE TO BECOME NANOTECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURER
Date: 19-Mar-04
Excerpt: Another $400,000 came from the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. "Nanotechnology will play a vital role in our ...
Source: Small Times -

EU nanotechnology project to reconstruct human corneas using ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: A new EU funded project is set to transform eye surgery and dramatically cut the number of experiments conducted on animals by reconstructing a human cornea in ...
Source: Cordis News -

Economy & Euro - UK rules out euro entry for this parliament
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: Europeans are smarter than Americans when it comes to nanotechnology, but hindered by the fragmentation of the market, thinks Ottilia Saxl of the UK Institute ...
Source: EurActiv.com -

New Mexico recognized for micro and nanotechnology
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology means creating devices and structures at the nanoscale, roughly one-thousandth the width of a human hair. It’s ...
Source: KOB-TV -

Pittsburgh University Opens Nanotechnology Lab to Startup ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...bastion of CMU scientists. Now, with nanotechnology firms such as Akustica Inc., IC Mechanics Inc. and other Microelectromechanical ...
Source: Miami Herald -

Michigan Small Tech Event in the fields of Nanotechnology, ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: The event, "Growing Michigan Business With Small Tech" highlighted developments statewide in the fields of Nanotechnology, Microsystems and MEMS. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Arizona a 'state to watch' in nanotechnology
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: Which states are big players in the race to become hot spots in a potentially huge small field -- nanotechnology and microsystems? ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Michigan Small Tech Event in the fields of Nanotechnology, ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: The event, "Growing Michigan Business With Small Tech" highlighted developments statewide in the fields of Nanotechnology, Microsystems and MEMS. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Applied Nanotech will participate in 'Dialog on Nanotechnology ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: CEO of its subsidiary Applied Nanotech, a premier research and commercialization organization dedicated to developing applications for nanotechnology, has been ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanogen Issued Nanotechnology Patent for Photonic Driven Assembly ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: ..."The ''473 patent builds upon our previous nanotechnology patents by describing nanofabrication and assembly approaches using photonics to create guiding ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Europeans are smarter than Americans when it comes to ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: It's not science fiction, it's real: technology is getting cleverer," says the head of the Institute of Nanotechnology in an exclusive interview with EurActiv. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Pittsburgh University Opens Nanotechnology Lab to Startup ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: In the sometimes-churlish start-up world, the act of sharing isn't considered a noble virtue. It can be a, "what's mine is mine" sort of world. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanotechnology-based power cell technology will address power ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...mPhase Technologies, Inc. today announced it has entered into an agreement with Lucent Technologies to develop nanotechnology-based power cell technology. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Conference Explores Nanotechnology and Its Commercialization
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration invite interested media to “The National Nanotechnology Initiative: From Vision ...
Source: Newswise (press release) -

Nanogen Issued Nanotechnology Patent for Photonic Driven Assembly ...
Date: 18-Mar-04
Excerpt: ..."The '473 patent builds upon our previous nanotechnology patents by describing nanofabrication and assembly approaches using photonics to create guiding ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release) -

UK public opinion survey reveals nanotechnology's small profile
Date: 17-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...by the UK's Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering on 15 March reveals that the vast majority of the British public have no idea what nanotechnology is ...
Source: Cordis News -

Europe is lacking in good nanotechnology infrastructure, thinks ...
Date: 17-Mar-04
Excerpt: It's not science fiction, it's real: technology is getting cleverer," says the head of the Institute of Nanotechnology in an exclusive interview with EurActiv. ...
Source: EurActiv.com -

DailyStocks.com Announces a New Report on Nanotechnology Stocks ...
Date: 16-Mar-04
Excerpt: DailyStocks.com has compiled a list of nanotechnology companies that might benefit from nanotechnology's boom in the next few years. ...
Source: Emediawire (press release) -

DailyStocks.com Announces a New Report on Nanotechnology Stocks ...
Date: 16-Mar-04
Excerpt: DailyStocks has put together a free report of company profiles of companies we have found to have interesting products or stories related to nanotechnology. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanotechnology is a total mystery to most people, an opinion poll ...
Date: 16-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...poll was carried out for the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society, which have a working group reviewing the potential impacts of nanotechnology.
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

HI-TECH:- NanoScience and Nanotechnology (1)
Date: 16-Mar-04
Excerpt: By Chris Uwaje. WELCOME to Nanotechnology. If ... decades! Nanotechnology is the science and technology of materials at the nanometer scale. ...
Source: Vanguard -

Brits ignorant of Nanotechnology
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: LONDON: Most Britons have never heard of Nanotechnology and have no idea what it is, according to a survey released. But the majority ...
Source: CIOL -

Nanotechnology:Tiny hope or big hype?
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology will amount to nanoprofits, they worry as they tick off a list of technologies from artificial intelligence to virtual reality that looked cool ...
Source: CNN International -

Ohio named hot spot for nanotechnology
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: Small Times, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based magazine that covers the nanotechnology industry, ranked Ohio No. 10 on its latest list of Small Tech Hot Spots. ...
Source: Columbus Business First -

Bashful Vs. Brash In The New Field Of Nanotechnology
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...a representative company to attend President Bush’s signing of a bill last December authorising $3.7 billion in federal spending on nanotechnology over the ...
Source: Financial Express -

Bell labs develop cool chips with nanograss
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: ..."Once in a while, we get a research breakthrough that has wide applicability across many fields," said David Bishop, vice president of nanotechnology at Bell ...
Source: InSourced -

Puzzles and promise of the nascent nanotech field
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...invite a company to attend President George W. Bush's signing of a bill last December authorizing $3.7 billion in federal spending on nanotechnology over the ...
Source: International Herald Tribune -

Arizona a 'state to watch' in nanotechnology
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: Which states are big players in the race to become hot spots in a potentially huge small field -- nanotechnology and microsystems? ...
Source: Phoenix Business Journal -

Granite center is set in stone
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: If all goes according to plan, Granite's high school students will plunge into the atomic world of nanotechnology -- where researchers arrange atoms and ...
Source: Salt Lake Tribune -

Nanotechnology is soaring, but early applications likely to be ...
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: Along with many folks in American science and industry these days, they hope the field known as nanotechnology is finally ready for liftoff. ...
Source: Seattle Times -

Atomic Microscope Spots Viruses
Date: 15-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...for practical use within a year, according to the researchers. The work appeared in the January 19, 2004 issue of Nanotechnology.
Source: TechnologyReview.com -

nanoSIG and Nikkei Nanotechnology Stage First NANOBUSINESS ...
Date: 14-Mar-04
Excerpt: Silicon Valley-focused nanoSIG and Nikkei Nanotechnology are jointly staging the invitation-only NANO BUSINESS PARTNERING FORUM I in Tokyo, March 17. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanotechnology to visualize cellular processes for the ...
Date: 14-Mar-04
Excerpt: With the help of semiconductor nanocystals, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany, and their collaborators ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Big things expected of tiny technology
Date: 14-Mar-04
Excerpt: Is nanotechnology the next big "small thing" and will nano.com stocks replicate the boom and bust of the dot.com era? Business Editor ...
Source: Otago Daily Times -

SCIENTISTS ON TRACK FOR THE 360MPH TRAIN RIDE
Date: 13-Mar-04
Excerpt: Professor Simon Bending, of the University of Bath, said the hi-tech design, which uses nanotechnology, could be developed within two years if financial ...
Source: Bath Chronicle -

SJ FIRM GETS DOWN TO EARTH WITH NANOTECHNOLOGY: DEVISING AN ...
Date: 13-Mar-04
Excerpt: By Dean Takahashi. Nanotechnology enthusiasts envision a world of microscopic robots, cell-sized computer chips and other fantastic devices. ...
Source: Bradenton Herald -

nanoSIG and Nikkei Nanotechnology Stage First NANOBUSINESS ...
Date: 13-Mar-04
Excerpt: SAN JOSE, CA (PRWEB) March 13, 2004--Silicon Valley-focused nanoSIG and Nikkei Nanotechnology are jointly staging the invitation-only NANO BUSINESS PARTNERING ...
Source: Emediawire (press release) -

Nanotechnology to visualize cellular processes for the ...
Date: 13-Mar-04
Excerpt: With the help of semiconductor nanocystals, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany, and their collaborators ...
Source: Medical News Today -

Danville tobacco warehouse to get new use
Date: 13-Mar-04
Excerpt: In a statement, Warner said nanotechnology will play a vital role in our military's future and Danville will help lead the industry's development. ...
Source: Richmond Times Dispatch -

Applied Nanotech to Present at Nano Tech 2004
Date: 12-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...(ANI), a premier research and commercialization organization dedicated to developing applications for nanotechnology, has been invited to present at Nano Tech ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanotechnology's unhappy father
Date: 11-Mar-04
Excerpt: Eric Drexler invented nanotechnology. But what he thought he had invented is not what has come to pass. ... So he called his vision “nanotechnology”. ...
Source: Economist (subscription) -

New Nanotechnology Fibre With Antibacterial Properties
Date: 11-Mar-04
Excerpt: South Korea's leading synthetic fibre manufacturer Hyosung Corp., has launched its first nanotechnology fibre with antibacterial properties for garments ...
Source: Fibre 2 Fashion -

Researchers Split on Nanotechnology Future
Date: 11-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology will amount to nanoprofits, they worry as they tick off a list of technologies from artificial intelligence to virtual reality that looked cool ...
Source: Rapid City Journal -

VCs eye nanotech as next big thing
Date: 10-Mar-04
Excerpt: BOSTON — At least one venture capitalist believes that nanotechnology could become the most influential force to take hold of the technology industry since ...
Source: Globetechnology.com -

Trade Mission To Boost Nanotechnology
Date: 10-Mar-04
Excerpt: University, Belfast, and the University of Ulster are taking part in an Invest NI technology mission to the world's biggest nanotechnology conference in Boston ...
Source: ic NorthernIreland.co.uk -

Lt. governor tours Ball State
Date: 10-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...does best. "Ball State has a tremendous capability in digital media and nanotechnology," Davis said. "It is beyond me.". Davis, who ...
Source: Muncie Star Press -

Nanotech momentum grows as planners define goals
Date: 10-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...and Technology Institute's annual Nanotech conference here showed evidence of robust growth and growing optimism about the industrial future of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Semiconductor Business News -

VCs start thinking small with nanotechnology
Date: 10-Mar-04
Excerpt: At least one venture capitalist believes that nanotechnology could become the most influential force to take hold of the technology industry since the rise of ...
Source: Silicon.com -

Can nanotech keep chipmaking up to speed?
Date: 10-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology, the science of building products out of components that are less than 100 nanometers in size, could help companies continue their tradition of ...
Source: ZDNet.com -

VCs eye nanotech as next big thing
Date: 9-Mar-04
Excerpt: BOSTON--At least one venture capitalist believes that nanotechnology could become the most influential force to take hold of the technology industry since the ...
Source: Cnet Asia -

SOUTH KOREA: Hyosung Launches Nanotechnology Fibre
Date: 9-Mar-04
Excerpt: Hyosung Corp, South Korea's leading synthetic fibre manufacturer, has launched its first nanotechnology fibre with antibacterial properties for garments ...
Source: just-style.com -

Newly-Formed Mitx Announces Creation of Nanotechnology ...
Date: 9-Mar-04
Excerpt: The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange ("MITX") today announced the creation of the Nanotechnology Exchange, a state-wide association to represent ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Nanotechnology firm Polaron to float
Date: 9-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology firm Polaron says it plans to list on the Alternative Investment Market at the end of this month with a market value of 20 to 25 million pounds. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release) -

Newly-Formed Mitx Announces Creation of Nanotechnology ...
Date: 9-Mar-04
Excerpt: BOSTON, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange ("MITX") today announced the creation of the Nanotechnology Exchange, a state ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release) -

US nanotechnology funding called for
Date: 8-Mar-04
Excerpt: BOSTON - The science of nanotechnology is already making semiconductors faster and more powerful, but challenges loom in the distance that US researchers are ...
Source: InfoWorld -

From the March 5, 2004 print edition
Date: 8-Mar-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, TX

From the March 5, 2004 print edition
Date: 8-Mar-04
Excerpt: Vernon Restaurant, 14 Broadway, Somerville. For further information or reservations, call (617) 776-0476. “How Nanotechnology Will Change Your Life in 2005 ...
Source: Boston Business Journal, MA

THE FINANCIAL PAGE
Date: 8-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...coms. Infatuation and disillusionment: it’s the American way. Now investors have found a new crush: nanotechnology. Nanotech involves ...
Source: New Yorker, NY

Nanotechnology firm Polaron to float
Date: 8-Mar-04
Excerpt: LONDON (Reuters) - Nanotechnology firm Polaron says it plans to list on the Alternative Investment Market at the end of this month with a market value of 20 to ...
Source: Reuters, UK

Face to face: Prof. Gabriel Crean, Director of NMRC
Date: 8-Mar-04
Excerpt: Our current strategic research agenda is focussed on the areas of photonics, nanotechnology microtechnologies and at the interface between ICT and the life ...
Source: ElectricNews.net, Ireland

The case for Bush
Date: 7-Mar-04
Excerpt: Last December, Bush signed into law a National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). His latest budget proposal includes nearly $1 billion, twice 2001 levels. ...
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, CA

Thinking small to make it big
Date: 7-Mar-04
Excerpt: The sector is nanotechnology, which in laypeople's terms is itty-bitty. One "nano" is three to five atoms in length. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. ...
Source: Bradenton Herald, FL

Penn State University's Research Expenditures Grew to $545 ...
Date: 7-Mar-04
Excerpt: The annual report highlights research initiatives in homeland security, nanotechnology and Pennsylvania's agriculture industry. ...
Source: Miami Herald, FL

Israel banks on miniscule industry
Date: 6-Mar-04
Excerpt: Nanotechnology involves manipulating particles the size of a few molecules. And it's hoped that nanotechnology could be used to ...
Source: ABC Online, Australia

Chipmakers Pushing the Envelope to 45nm
Date: 5-Mar-04
Excerpt: Friday plans to create a next-generation chip design platform so fabrication plants can build CMOS (define) logic processors using nanotechnology (define). ...
Source: InternetNews.com, United States

Accelrys Inc. Hosts Scientific Conference to Address Emerging ...
Date: 5-Mar-04
Excerpt: WHY: With the announcement of President Bush's $1 billion budget for Nanotechnology R&D in 2005, it has become clear that this new science will play a vital ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

State seen poised to gain from nanotechnology
Date: 5-Mar-04
Excerpt: By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff, 3/6/2004. Nanotechnology creates devices smaller than a human hair, and it might just be the next big thing in Massachusetts. ...
Source: Boston.com, MA

ISTN Wins NIH Nanotechnology Grant to Develop Drug Delivery ...
Date: 4-Mar-04
Excerpt: The grant is part of NIH’s Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative, a special SBIR program for “nanotechnologies useful to biomedicine.”. ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release), United States

Kyoto laureate predicts stiff overseas competition in ...
Date: 3-Mar-04
Excerpt: By CATHERINE MACRAE HOCKMUTH. US businesses may eventually find it harder to acquire the technology they need as the nation loses ...
Source: San Diego Daily Transcript, CA

Conference Agenda Announced for 3rd Annual NanoBusiness 2004, ...
Date: 3-Mar-04
Excerpt: ...of its conference program for the 3rd annual NanoBusiness 2004, the industry's most important event focusing on the rapidly growing nanotechnology industry. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

PuraMatrix Hydrogels Win International Awards for Biomaterial ...
Date: 3-Mar-04
Excerpt: 3DM, Inc. today announced that it's PuraMatrix line of synthetic hydrogels was awarded the annual Excellence in Technology Award ...
Source: Nanotechwire.com (press release), United States

THE SMALL PRINT: BOOK PUBLISHERS ARE FOLLOWING THE NANO BUZZ
Date: 2-Mar-04
Excerpt: March 2, 2004 – The day after Hewlett-Packard's "n is for nanotechnology" television commercial ran during the US Open tennis tournament in September 2003 ...
Source: Small Times

PuraMatrix(TM) Hydrogels Win International Awards for Biomaterial ...
Date: 2-Mar-04
Excerpt: BOSTON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- 3DM, Inc. today announced that it's PuraMatrix(TM) line of synthetic hydrogels was awarded the annual ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Commercializing Nanotechnology
Date: 2-Mar-04
Excerpt: In part two of this Motley Fool special report, Carl Wherrett and John Yelovich, two longtime contributors to our nanotechnology discussion forum, survey the ...
Source: Motley Fool

MICROSCOPES EMBRACE HYPHENATION AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Date: 1-Mar-04
Excerpt: The second trend in microscopy is targeting the nanotechnology sector, which is booming as a result of the continued miniaturization of samples. ...
Source: Small Times

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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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