TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Index

Nanotechnology articles - April 2004

Teeny techno trots out
Date: 31 May 2004
Excerpt: The exhibition, Nanotechnology - Small Is Beaut, looks at the science and technology of tiny machines. It will be the first nanotechnology ...
Source: Bendigo Advertiser

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco Proclaims June 4, 2004 ...
Date: 28 May 2004
Excerpt: BATON ROUGE, La.- In support of Louisiana´s groundbreaking research being conducted in the field of nanotechnology, Governor Kathleen Blanco declares June 4 ...
Source: Bayou Buzz

Loomis Group Adds NanoVance to Growing List of Nanotechnology ...
Date: 27 May 2004
Excerpt: Initially, NanoVance is focused on the medical/biotech and IT/data storage industries. "We recognized several years ago that nanotechnology is a fast-growing ...
Source: TMCnet

Insurance Industry Warned of Nanotechnology Risks
Date: 27 May 2004
Excerpt: ...reinsurance company Swiss Re has advised insurance companies that they may need to reconsider covering products manufactured using nanotechnology until more is ...
Source: Slashdot

Lab embarks on nanotechnology path
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: ...for a new facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory lauded the vast scientific potential, competitive necessity and economic promise of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Los Alamos Monitor

Insurance industry warned of nanotechnology risks
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: A major reinsurance company has advised insurance companies that they may need to reconsider covering products manufactured using nanotechnology until more is ...
Source: Cordis News

A Nanotechnology Turnaround?
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: By Glenn Harlan Reynolds. I've written some pessimistic columns on nanotechnology lately. In essence, my concern was that the nanotechnology ...
Source: Tech Central Station

Ground Broken for Nanotechnology Center at Sandia and Los Alamos ...
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: The centers are part of the department's contribution to the National Nanotechnology Initiative, and they form an integrated national network. ...
Source: LinuxElectrons

MILITARY NANOTECHNOLOGY CONTINUES ITS MARCH TOWARD BATTLEFIED USE
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: NEW YORK, May 25, 2004 -- Nanotechnology companies are changing the US military, supplying products such as advanced ceramics to protect aircraft carriers and ...
Source: Small Times

What do men really want (to read about)?
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: The research was really easy," he said, "because I'd call up my dad and say, 'I need to know about nanotechnology,' and soon I'd be on the phone with some guy ...
Source: International Herald Tribune

Going public without a product
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: Yet a few companies in nanotechnology are confident they can offer just that - big promises and no proof of earnings - to investors hungry for a stake in a hot ...
Source: International Herald Tribune

2004 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium Announces First Two Tracks ...
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: The symposium will feature two tracks of companies: one in life sciences and the other in information technology, nanotechnology and alternative energy. ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Honda: Nanotech needs more government support
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: US Rep. Mike Honda plans to introduce a bill next year in Congress to further research into nanotechnology to help spur economic growth in Silicon Valley. ...
Source: San Jose Business Journal

Ultratech CTO David Markle Elected to Prestigious National ...
Date: 26 May 2004
Excerpt: ...(Nasdaq: UTEK), a leading supplier of photolithography systems used to manufacture semiconductors and nanotechnology devices, today announced that David A ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Nanotechnology improving energy options
Date: 24 May 2004
Excerpt: NEW YORK, May 24 (UPI) -- Nanotechnology could help revolutionize the energy industry, producing advances such as solar power cells made of plastics to ...
Source: United Press International

National nanotech expert to address UW-Madison conference
Date: 24 May 2004
Excerpt: Jeffrey P. Schloss, an expert in the application of nanotechnology in the health-care field, will be the keynote speaker at "Bionanotechnology," the second ...
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications

Investors Seek Nanotech Payday
Date: 24 May 2004
Excerpt: By David Manners -- , 5/24/2004. Google's IPO? Oh please, Internet stocks are so 20th century. Real players are jumping on the nanotechnology bandwagon. ...
Source: Reed Electronics Group

Doubts raised about company
Date: 24 May 2004
Excerpt: ...and laid off much of its staff, he now says his the company will not attend the state's first major conference dealing with nanotechnology - Cornerstone's area ...
Source: Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

UNI gets Carver grant
Date: 24 May 2004
Excerpt: University of Northern Iowa recently received a $226,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust for specialized nanoscience and nanotechnology equipment ...
Source: Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

Nanotech nomenclature: Coming to terms with nascent field
Date: 24 May 2004
Excerpt: ...reactions that would not otherwise occur and are the latest in a string of new substances to come out of the hot new field of nanotechnology, which deals with ...
Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Tech firms focused on 'small' headed to big conference
Date: 24 May 2004
Excerpt: ...itty-bitty stuff at a conference aimed at showcasing an emerging high-tech industry with growing potential for the state -- nanotechnology, which involves the ...
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Going Public Without Profits or a Product? Yes, in 2004
Date: 23 May 2004
Excerpt: Yet a few companies in nanotechnology are confident they can offer just that - big promises and no proof of earnings - to investors hungry for a stake in a hot ...
Source: New York Times

An insurance industry perspective on nanotechnology
Date: 21 May 2004
Excerpt: Swiss Re, one of the major international reinsurance companies, last week announced the publication of a report on nanotechnology: "Nanotechnology: Small matter ...
Source: IT-Analysis

ROADMAP TO DRIVE CHEMICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY
Date: 21 May 2004
Excerpt: ...dollar revolution if it follows a roadmap drawn by a government and business partnership to capitalize on the rapidly advancing field of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Small Times

A&T wins $2.7M grant for nanotechnology
Date: 20 May 2004
Excerpt: NC A&T State University in Greensboro has won a $2.7 million grant from the US Office of Naval Research to establish a Center for Nanoscience and Nanomaterials ...
Source: Triad Business Journal

Samsung serves up nanotechnology
Date: 19 May 2004
Excerpt: ..."We are using nanotechnology to keep our food fresh and pure, our clothes germs-free, and our air clean," said sales specialist Ricky Feng. ...
Source: eTaiwan News

NanoBusiness Alliance and workingin-nanotechnology.com Join to ...
Date: 19 May 2004
Excerpt: NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2004--NanoBusiness Alliance, the leading nanotechnology trade association (www.nanobusiness.org), today announced that it ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

EU Strategy To Create New Knowledge In Nanotechnology
Date: 19 May 2004
Excerpt: The European Commission has adopted an EU strategy to help Europe to become world leader in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology the science of the ...
Source: AZoNano.com

Donaldson Company Leads Industry in Applying Patented ...
Date: 18 May 2004
Excerpt: ..."The nanotechnology in these patents represents major breakthroughs made by Donaldson's Research & Development team," said Tim Grafe, Director of Nanofiber ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

New Nanotechnology-Based Power Cell Will Reduce Weight and ...
Date: 18 May 2004
Excerpt: ...mPhase is developing the product under a license from Lucent Technologies as a member of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Nanostellar Use Nanotechnology to Reduce Dependence on Platinum ...
Date: 18 May 2004
Excerpt: Nanostellar are developing patent pending technology that will reduce the requirement for platinum group metals for conventional catalytic processes. ...
Source: AZoNano.com

Solution for Affordable Healthcare? Nanotechnology
Date: 18 May 2004
Excerpt: So says healthcare and nanotechnology expert Richard H. Smith. ... Richard Smith is a Principal in the nanotechnology commercialization firm Nanoverse LLC. ...
Source: Emediawire (press release)

2nd Annual International Nanoscience Conference to Be Held in ...
Date: 18 May 2004
Excerpt: WOODBURY, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004--Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq:VECO) announces the premier nanotechnology and nanoscience conference of 2004 ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Too tiny to take a proper name
Date: 18 May 2004
Excerpt: ...chemical reactions that would not otherwise occur, are the latest in a string of substances to come out of the hot new field of nanotechnology, which deals ...
Source: Newark Star Ledger

Research and Markets: Worldwide Status and Outlook: Molecular ...
Date: 18 May 2004
Excerpt: ...http://www.researchandmarkets.com) has announced the addition of Worldwide Status and Outlook: Molecular Modeling for Nanotechnology Technologies, Applications ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

MITX Announces Technology Awards to Showcase New England ...
Date: 17 May 2004
Excerpt: ...and broaden its charter to include not only digital media professionals, but new and growing technologies in networking, software and nanotechnology, we wanted ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Sono-Tek Announces Its Annual Earnings - Eleventh Consecutive ...
Date: 17 May 2004
Excerpt: ...as well as diversification of the Company's product lines over the last two and one half years to include applications in the medical and nanotechnology areas. ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Australian Government/Invest Australia to Speak at NanoBusiness ...
Date: 17 May 2004
Excerpt: Marriott World Financial Center, New York), the industry's foremost event with a comprehensive look at the international business landscape for nanotechnology. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

NUWC, University of Texas Kick off Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Date: 15 May 2004
Excerpt: The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Newport, RI, Division, and the University of Texas (UT) at Austin began a month-long class on nanotechnology May 10. ...
Source: Navy News Stand (press release)

EU Adopts Nanotechnology R&D Investment Strategy
Date: 14 May 2004
Excerpt: As nanotechnology research is expected to have an impact upon virtually all technological sectors in the coming years, the European Commission adopted a ...
Source: Electronic News

European Union to triple nanotechnology research
Date: 14 May 2004
Excerpt: Belgium -- The European Union has adopted a strategy that it expects will make the region the world leader in the field of nanotechnology, according to a ...
Source: Semiconductor Business News

Commission set to boost nanotechnology research in Europe
Date: 14 May 2004
Excerpt: Although the European nanotechnology industry is faring pretty well compared to its main competitors, concerted efforts are needed to ensure the emerging gap ...
Source: Euractiv

UO professor strikes nanotechnology gold
Date: 14 May 2004
Excerpt: EUGENE — A chemistry professor at the University of Oregon has developed a nanotechnology innovation that could help propel the emerging field into the ...
Source: Salem Statesman Journal

Emilia-Romagna region to hold workshop on nanotechnology in FP6
Date: 14 May 2004
Excerpt: A workshop on nanotechnology under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) and the experiences of the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, will take place in Brussels ...
Source: Cordis News

New EU Strategy to Develop Nanotechnology
Date: 13 May 2004
Excerpt: The European Commission today adopted an EU strategy to help Europe to become world leader in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology the science of the ...
Source: Azom.com

UO Chemistry professor develops nanotechnology innovation
Date: 13 May 2004
Excerpt: A chemistry professor at the University of Oregon has developed a nanotechnology innovation that could help propel the emerging field into the scientific ...
Source: kgw.com (subscription)

UO innovation advances science of nanotechnology
Date: 13 May 2004
Excerpt: Applying the same idea to nanotechnology, Hutchison came up with a process that eliminates diborane gas and benzene from the production of gold nanoparticles. ...
Source: The Register-Guard

Ireland must work to attract hi-tech nanotechnology investment - ...
Date: 13 May 2004
Excerpt: Better quality of life, economic growth and employment if Ireland becomes hi-tech European powerhouse for billion-dollar nanotechnology business, writes Chair ...
Source: Politics.ie

EU plans to become leader in nanotechnology. Here's how...
Date: 12 May 2004
Excerpt: The European Commission has adopted an EU strategy to help Europe to become world leader in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology the science of the ...
Source: PublicTechnology.net

A new EU strategy in the field of nanotechnology.
Date: 12 May 2004
Excerpt: The European Commission today adopted an EU strategy to help Europe to become world leader in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Eurofunding

Swiss Re Reports on Nanotechnology Insurance Perspectives
Date: 11 May 2004
Excerpt: Swiss Re has issued a report on the phenomena of nanotechnology from an insurer's point of view. Originally presented at a media ...
Source: Insurance Journal

Nanotechnology sector looks set for decade of growth
Date: 11 May 2004
Excerpt: The market value of nanotechnology-based products used in Thailand is expected to reach Bt13 trillion in the next 10 years. That ...
Source: The Nation, Thailand

Industrylink project to hold FP6 nanotechnology information event
Date: 10 May 2004
Excerpt: The event will comprise an information day on the 'Nanotechnology and nanosciences, knowledge based multifunctional materials, new production processes and ...
Source: Cordis News

From the May 7, 2004 print edition
Date: 10 May 2004
Excerpt: Reception is for connecting companies involved in small technology: nanotechnology, microsystems, MEMS, NEMS and general miniaturization. Cost is free. ...
Source: Austin Business Journal

Nanotech uses seem promising
Date: 9 May 2004
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: Akron Beacon Journal (subscription)

What's nanotechnology?
Date: 8 May 2004
Excerpt: Nanotechnology could also be used in devices that can help detect chemicals and viruses. Readers! Send a question. If it's used, you win a Starship backpack. ...
Source: Toronto Star

Webcast Alert: Trilogy Capital Partners' Inaugural Online ...
Date: 7 May 2004
Excerpt: ...is pleased to invite all investors and interested parties to attend its inaugural Online Nanotechnology Forum, to be webcast live today at 12 pm Eastern. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Germany to create more apprenticeships in nanotechnology and ...
Date: 7 May 2004
Excerpt: ...offensive 2004', saying that she sees particular potential for apprenticeships in the growth areas of microsystems technology, nanotechnology and biotechnology ...
Source: Cordis News

Nano's Great Leap
Date: 7 May 2004
Excerpt: Individual stocks (and even stock funds) may have little more connection to the nanotechnology revolution than the letters nano in their names. ...
Source: Motley Fool

UO researcher helps advance nanotechnology
Date: 6 May 2004
Excerpt: By Steven Neuman. Nanotechnology, or the manipulation of materials at the atomic level, has been heralded as the technology of the future. ...
Source: Oregon Daily Emerald

Nobel Laureate and a 'Founding Father' of Nanotechnology to Speak ...
Date: 6 May 2004
Excerpt: Robert F. Curl, Jr., will be speaking at Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) May 14 on "The Discovery of Fullerenes and Emerging Nanotechnology in Medicine ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Nanotechnology becomes increasingly important in engineering
Date: 6 May 2004
Excerpt: That would be nanotechnology. Simply put, the term refers to manipulating individual molecules or groups of atoms to create substances and products. ...
Source: McKinney Messenger

Nobel Laureate and a 'Founding Father' of Nanotechnology to Speak ...
Date: 6 May 2004
Excerpt: Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., will be speaking at Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) May 14 on "The Discovery of Fullerenes and Emerging Nanotechnology in Medicine ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

WANTED: SKILLED NANOTECHNOLOGY WORKERS; ANYONE? ANYONE?
Date: 6 May 2004
Excerpt: By Jo McIntyre. May 6, 2004 – Even at this early stage in nanotechnology business development, some labor shortages are starting to show up. ...
Source: Small Times

Columbia University Hosts Nano-Day in New York
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: ...beautiful Saturdays of spring: instead of spending time outdoors, they participated in a daylong symposium on the frontiers of nanoscience and nanotechnology. ...
Source: AZoNano.com

Nanotech Technique to Rival PCR for DNA Analysis
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: ...compete with -- and beat -- PCR in many of the relevant categories,? said Chad A. Mirkin, director of Northwesternss Institute for Nanotechnology, who led ...
Source: Azom.com

Tech Conference Forecasts Business Trends
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: Uldrich, author of “The Next Big Thing is Really Small – How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future? lectured a captive audience of business leaders on ...
Source: Oswego County Business Magazine

US LAUNCHES NANOMEDICINE INITIATIVE, ASKS FOR BRIGHT IDEAS
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: This is not nanotechnology for the sake of nanotechnology," said Paul Sieving, director of NIH's National Eye Institute, where the initiative is being centered ...
Source: Small Times

Webcast Alert: Scott Mize to be Keynote Speaker for Trilogy ...
Date: 4 May 2004
Excerpt: ...early stage company focused on creating a breakthrough nano-imaging device, will deliver the keynote presentation for Trilogy's Online Nanotechnology Forum to ...
Source: TMCnet

UO patent opens way for green nano
Date: 4 May 2004
Excerpt: A patent issued today (Tuesday, May 4) to the University of Oregon provides an environmentally benign solution to an important challenge in nanotechnology. ...
Source: EurekAlert

Dublin display firm raises $9.5m
Date: 4 May 2004
Excerpt: NTERA, founded in UCD in 1997, has developed NanoChromics, which uses nanotechnology to develop displays for use in items such as clocks and meters. ...
Source: RTE News

ChevronTexaco MolecularDiamond Technologies Produces Research ...
Date: 3 May 2004
Excerpt: ..."This is an important step in furthering advances in the fast-growing, actively funded field of nanotechnology," said Waqar Qureshi, Ph.D. and vice president ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Looking for Work in Nanotechnology? New Web Site May Offer ...
Date: 3 May 2004
Excerpt: PARK > A new site has hit the web to meet the increasing demand for career, education and training information in the emerging field of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Local Tech Wire

TOO MUCH, TOO SOON: VCS MAY NEVER YIELD MUCH FROM NANOTECHNOLOGY
Date: 3 May 2004
Excerpt: By Joshua Jaffe. May 3, 2004 – Vinod Khosla and Steve Jurvetson are venture capitalists with an abiding faith in nanotechnology. ...
Source: Small Times

Moneywise Asks
Date: 2 May 2004
Excerpt: ...technologies. One of the ones that I follow at this point is called nanotechnology. Flat screen TVs are possible because of nanotechnology. ...
Source: Syracuse Post Standard

7th Annual MHTA Spring Conference: The Business of Technology
Date: 01 May 2004
Excerpt: Group, a consultancy that focuses on helping businesses, venture capitalists, and governments understand, evaluate, prepare for, and profit from nanotechnology ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Nano or Bust
Date: 01 May 2004
Excerpt: Fools Carl Wherrett and John Yelovich recently gave an overview of the major players and pitfalls in their two-part special, Profiting From Nanotechnology. ...
Source: Motley Fool

FRENCH ACADEMY URGES GOVERNMENT TO INVEST IN SMALL TECH
Date: 01 May 2004
Excerpt: Frances Academies of Science and Technology, known as the parliament of the learned, handed in a joint report on the state of nanotechnology and nanoscience ...
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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