Intel boosts nanotech work via Zyvex link
By David Lammers

AUSTIN, Texas — Intel Corp. is studying the use of carbon nanotube-based polymers in thermal-interface materials, the latest evidence that nanotechnology is no longer a curiosity but is being put to work in the electronics industry.
An Intel spokesman said Intel's enterprise laboratory will source the carbon nanotube (CNT) material from Zyvex Corp. (Richardson, Texas), one of the early nanotechnology startups to achieve commercial revenues from both materials and tools….read the wave

Nano-Tex Inks Deal With Domestic Workwear, Sportswear, Cotton Leader Avondale Mills

Nano-Tex, LLC, the leader in textile enhancements that deliver superior performance with maximum comfort in everyday fabrics, today announced it has licensed its technology to Avondale Mills, the country's largest producer of workwear and sportswear, and a leader in cotton apparel.
Avondale produces fabrics for casualwear, sportswear and career and uniform apparel for such leading brands as Gap, VF, Levi's, Haggar, Williamson-Dickie, Carhartt and Cintas.
The partnership with Avondale marks a significant expansion for Nano-Tex into the career and uniform apparel market, in addition to bolstering the company's presence in cotton casualwear and sportswear….read the wave

EU consortium to fund nanotechnology, nano-imprint litho

MALMO, Sweden -- Some 30 companies, including nano-imprint lithography specialist Obducat AB, have formed a nanotechnology consortium as part of European Union's sixth framework of collaborative research programs.
The consortium, called Emerging Nanopatterning Methods (NaPa), has been granted 16 million euros (US$19.9 million) in funding from the EU. NaPa will focus on the research and development of production techniques for nano-structuring and multifunctional polymers….read the wave

Nanoimprint litho progress reported at SPIE
By Ron Wilson

Steady progress in nanoimprint lithography reported Tuesday (Feb.24) at the SPIE conference here definitely caught the attention of attendees. In six papers, researchers from Hewlett-Packard Labs and from three nanoimprint equipment makers all reported the fabrication of structures or devices with existing equipment. In addition, progress in the materials field was described….read the wave

Self-assembly wins with gold rosette

Scientists at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have used the self-assembly of hydrogen-bonded rosettes to create nanostructures containing gold. The technique could have applications in the fabrication of nanowires.

“We demonstrated that the incorporation of metal atoms is fully compatible with the bottom-up strategy of building rosette assemblies via multiple hydrogen bonding,” Mercedes Crego-Calama told nanotechweb.org. “Normally this approach is carried out using biomolecules such as DNA that are less stable than the synthetic molecules presented here.” …read the wave

Two Michigan dendrimer companies are vying for 'world leader' status By Steve Pardo

In the promising, but sometimes slow-moving from a commercial point of view, world of dendrimers, companies specializing in the emerging technology are working to secure their futures.

Dendritic NanoTechnologies (DNT), based in Mt. Pleasant, put together a three-part strategy in the fall of 2002. The first part was designed to put the motions in place that would insure the company would be around for the foreseeable future, said Charles Burke, DNT's chief executive. That involved putting together grants and concentrating on the sales of dendrimers….read the wave

A little tiny bubble?

We take issue with the characterization of nanotechnology by Thomas Theis, head of physical science research at IBM that investing in the field today is "buying the equivalent of an Internet stock a couple years ago." Speaking to the Washington Post, which admittedly had the final say on what version of the conversation was published, Theis added: "If you think you're smart enough to get out before that bubble bursts, good luck."

With all due respect to Dr. Theis….read the wave

Dismissing Drexler Is Bad for Business by Simon Smith

Ignoring the potential of molecular manufacturing won't make it go away, so why is the US nanotech industry painting its advocates as kooks?

There's nanotechnology and then there's nanotechnology.

While "nano" always refers to billionth of a meter—half the width of a DNA strand—there's a big difference between stain-resistant nanopants and Star Trek-style replicators. For one thing, the pants won't make more of themselves out of other clothes in your closet….read the wave

New US Collaboration in Nanotechnology

Global nanotechnology company pSivida Limited (ASX:PSD) is pleased to announce that it’s UK operating subsidiary pSiMedica has signed a Materials Transfer Agreement with Pennsylvania-based NanoHorizons, Inc.

NanoHorizons are an emerging leader in nanoscale material and device
technologies. The company has developed a series of nanostructured silicon films
that have application in high speed mass spectrometry analysis of small molecules
(QuickMass™) as well as mechanically flexible high performance displays, MEMS,
sensors and optoelectronics (PostFlex Process). QuickMass™, which reduces time and cost of drug discovery research, is currently marketed through Shimadzu
Biotech. Through the micro- and nanofabrication of novel silicon structures,
NanoHorizons is also exploring nano-structured materials for applications in
healthcare.

pSiMedica together with NanoHorizons will examine opportunities to utilise these
films in areas such as tissue engineering and diagnostics. One of NanoHorizon’s
unique materials is a nanostructured silicon film which can be produced on a wide
variety of substrates such as glass, metals, ceramics or on flexible polymer surfaces.

Through the sensor applications of NanoHorizon’s devices, the company has
developed respiratory monitors and diagnostics. NanoHorizons adopt a
complementary manufacturing method to pSiMedica yielding structures that
potentially expand the opportunities of silicon in medicine.

NanoHorizons founding director and Chief Technical Officer, Professor. Stephen
Fonash, who also is Director of the Penn State Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization, said, “Working with pSivida will enhance our ability to address the needs of medicine with the opportunities of nanotechnology. pSiMedica’s worldwide base and NanoHorizons’ broad materials expertise should yield rapid, exciting results.”

pSivida Managing Director, Mr Gavin Rezos added, “We are pleased to be working
with Dr Fonash and his team at NanoHorizons. This program has the potential to
provide additional manufacturing and coating solutions to a number of pSivida
diagnostic and other development products. This nanotechnology collaboration
further demonstrates our expanding US presence.”

pSiMedica retains granted patents in relation to “in” and “on” the body applications of porous silicon. Nanohorizons have an exclusive license from The Penn State
Research Foundation for its intellectual property and will share any new intellectual
property directly resulting from this collaborative partnership with pSiMedica.

…read the wave pSivida Limited
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U.S.Firm to Unveil Cancer-Fighting Nanotechnology

By Rebecca Lipchitz, The Sun, Lowell, Mass. Knight Ridder/Tribune
Business News

CHELMSFORD, Mass. - A local company working with UMass Lowell
is getting ready for clinical trials on a nanotechnology-based cancer
treatment for prostate and breast cancer.

"We're getting a little too big for our incubator. We're about to pop out of our shell," said Dr. Samuel Straface, CEO of Triton BioSystems, which collaborated with UMass Lowell to develop the treatment.

Representatives from Triton and UMass Lowell, as well as U.S. Rep.
Marty Meehan were scheduled to unveil details during a press
conference Wednesday at Triton's Turnpike Road headquarters.

The company uses technology developed by the Army to create a two-part
cancer treatment in which bioprobes -- nanoscale magnetic spheres
bound to an antibody -- are injected into the body. After the bioprobes attach themselves to cancer cells, the doctor activates the magnetic field, heating up the bioprobes and killing the cancer cells within minutes.

UMass Lowell scientists are working with Triton BioSystems to apply the technology to treatment of other cancers, such as lung, ovarian,pancreatic and renal cancers. U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan secured a $1 million grant from the Department of Defense to fund the project. The Army's research and development department funds projects that use military technology for the advancement of medical technology.

Straface said the money will mostly be put toward the cost of putting the new technology through clinical trials.

The materials are expensive, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has strict requirements for testing.

"There are so many standards to meet, it's good for the patient, but very expensive to reach (the market)," Straface said.Triton BioSystems has spent about $5 million of mostly private money on development of the technology since it opened two years ago as an offshoot of Triton Systems. But the cost of development in time and money has been cut in half by the partnership with UMass Lowell,
Straface said.

"We never could have done as much as quickly as we did without that
partnership," he said. "It makes two plus two equal five."

Nanotech shows great promise on medical application

The science of nanotechnology is rapidly moving from its early beginnings in electronics, computersand telecommunications into the expanding field of nanomedicine.

The emerging nanomedicine has the potential to change medical science dramatically in the 21st century, scientists said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle.

When nanotechnology started in the mid-1990s, it was mainly used to produce smaller and faster semiconductor chips. But in thepast two years, a number of breakthroughs were reported on using the technology to diagnose and treat human diseases.

Nanotechnology works at the atomic and molecular levels, equivalent to 1/100,000th the diameter of human hair.

Nanomedicine integrates technology, biology and medicine, usingtools and materials constructed from molecular and atomic-sized particles too small to be seen with a conventional laboratory microscope, according to Dr. Shuming Nie, professor of biomedical engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Speaking at the nanotechnology forum of the AAAS meeting, Dr. Nie said although nanoparticles are similar in size to biomolecules such as proteins and DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), they can be humanly engineered to have specific or multiple functions.

Medical applications for nanoparticles will focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimers, said Dr. Nie.

The most elementary nanomedical devices will be used to diagnose illness. Mobile nanorobots, equipped with wireless transmitters, might circulate in the blood and lymph systems and send out warnings when chemical imbalances occur or worsen.

Similar nanomachines could be planted in the nervous system to monitor pulse, brain-wave activity, and other functions.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have recently developed a tiny nanorobot called "nanospring" structure, which could detect individual molecules and possibly create an extremelysensitive method of detecting cancer.

When the "nanospring" structure encountered even a single cancer-protein molecule, it would send a radio signal through the skin, the researchers said.

More advanced use of nanotechnology might involve nanoparticles to dispense drugs or hormones as needed in people with chronic imbalance or deficiency states.

US scientists have developed semiconductor nanoparticlescalled quantum dots, which can be bound to particular genes and proteins and deliver drug.

The most exciting nanomedicine is nanorobots working as miniature surgeons, which might repair damaged cells, or get inside cells and replace or assist damaged intracellular structures.

At the extreme, nanomachines might replicate themselves or correct genetic deficiencies by altering or replacing DNA molecules.

The American National Science Foundation estimates that the nanomedicine market could be worth 1 trillion US dollars by 2015.Nanomedicine is a priority in the recently released new Roadmap of the US National Institute of Health.

US President George W. Bush signed the 21st Century Nanotechnology
Research and Development Act in December, which invests 3.7 billion dollars over four years starting fiscal year 2005 in research and development programs of nanotechnology. More than half of the money will go to nanomedicine.

But some scientists stressed at the AAAS meeting that it will take 20 to 30 years before people have nanomedical products in their hands.

"That puts us at 2020 or 2025, before nanoscience really becomes part of your life," said Dr. Yi Cui from University of California, Berkeley. Enditem

From Frankenstein to Frog Steaks By Debra Jones

The image of a Jesus lizard, scampering across the surface of a pond on its hind legs, filled the screen in the auditorium.

"Wouldn't it be great to be able to design something like this?" asked Carlo Montemagno, co-director of the UCLA Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration. Like many nanotech researchers, Montemagno is fascinated by the possibilities of mimicking life to create hybrid devices that combine living tissue with inanimate components. …read the wave

Very small Robots: USA

First robot moved by muscle power

A SILICON microrobot just half the width of a human hair has begun to crawl around in a Los Angeles lab, using legs powered by the pulsing of living heart muscle. It is the first time muscle tissue has been used to propel a micromachine.
This distinctly futuristic development could lead to muscle-based nerve stimulators that would allow paralysed people to breathe without the help of a ventilator. And NASA- which is funding the research- hopes swarms of crawling "musclebots" could one day help maintain spacecraft by plugging holes made by micrometeorites.

Whatever the ultimate applications of the technology, no one was more surprised to see the tiny musclebots finally move than Carlos Montemagno, the microengineer whose team is developing them at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has spent three disappointing years trying, and failing, to harness living muscle tissue to propel a micromachine. But when he and his team looked into their microscopes, they were amazed to see the latest version of their musclebot crawling around ...read the wave

Cabot Corporation and Super Sky Products Partner To Produce Polycarbonate Skylight Panels with Nanogel® Translucent Aerogel

Cabot Corporation (NYSE:CBT), a leading global producer of specialty chemicals, announced today it has mutually agreed to work with Super Sky Products, Inc., a world-renown leader in daylighting, a division of Vitro America, a Vitro (NYSE: VTO) subsidiary, to jointly produce and market a Polycarbonate skylight panel system filled with Nanogel® translucent aerogel. …read the wave

Building a Better Tree

Nanotechnology goes one step farther than genetic engineering, which deals with modifying organisms that already exist. The goal of this new science is to create completely new organisms that have never existed on Earth. Instead of bones or horns, artificial nanoorganisms will produce materials with pre-programmed properties and chemical composition, for example, a combination of ceramics and metal…read the wave

Marine sponges provide model for nanoscale materials production

"Nature was nano before nano was cool," stated Henry Fountain in a recent New York Times article on the proliferation of nanotechnology research projects. No one is more aware of this fact of nature than Dan Morse of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research groups have been studying the ways that nature builds ocean organisms at the nanoscale for over ten years.
For example, they have studied the abalone shell for its high-performance, super-resistant, composite mineral structure.
Now they are now looking to learn new biotechnological routes to make high performance electronic and optical materials. …read the wave

Scientists Model Silicon Nanotubes That Appear to Be Metal

Using one large computer, one borrowed graduate student, one good friend and one piece of advice from dear old Dad, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist and his team came up with an unexpected discovery -- at extremes of size, silicon may behave like a metal.
Xiao Cheng Zeng and his team used UNL's powerful supercomputer, PrairieFire, to create models of silicon tubes less than 1 nanometer in diameter (that is, less than one-billionth of a meter, essentially making them one-dimensional structures possessing length but virtually no thickness)….read the wave

Advanced Nano Products

www.nanotechnologyinvestment.com are featuring a private nanotechnology coating company involved in the environmental coatings industry.
The company Advanced Nano Products have seen Coatings and films becoming one of the more popular uses of nanotechnology in manufacturing. Advanced Nano Products manufactures and markets high performance environmentally friendly coating, including AMP Multifunctional Coating and AMP Fire Retardant Coating…read the wave

IITs To Focus On Biotechnology, Nanotechnology To Create IP

NEW DELHI: In order to cash in on the emerging growth areas like nanotechnology and biotechnology, Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi, Bombay and Roorkee are drawing their respective research road-map to generate intellectual property (IP).
The three IITs have identified these cutting edge technologies as their thrust areas for the next couple of years, where the greater focus would be to draw more funds for conducting research in these areas....read the wave

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP NOTES NANOSYS AND DUPONT ANNOUNCEMENT

Nanosys, Inc. (www.nanosysinc.com) and the DuPont's Central Research & Development (CR&D) arm have agreed jointly to research the use of Nanosys's nanotechnology-enabled high-performance thin-film technology for applications in electronics. Under the agreement, DuPont will work with Nanosys to explore how to incorporate Nanosys's technology into specific products such as thin films for electronics, according to the companies.

Harris & Harris Group, Inc. owns a 1.7 percent interest in privately held Nanosys, Inc. Nanosys is a company with broad-based intellectual property that is initially commercializing applications in macroelectronics, photovoltaics, and chemical and biological sensing. These applications incorporate novel zero and one-dimensional, nanometerscale materials, such as nanowires and nanocrystals as their principal active elements.

Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that now makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The Company's last 12 initial private equity investments have been in tiny-technology enabled companies.

Harris & Harris Group is a business development company with 13,798,845 common shares outstanding.

Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group and its holdings can be found on …read the wave

IITs To Focus On Biotechnology, Nanotechnology To Create IP

NEW DELHI: In order to cash in on the emerging growth areas like nanotechnology and biotechnology, Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi, Bombay and Roorkee are drawing their respective research road-map to generate intellectual property (IP).
The three IITs have identified these cutting edge technologies as their thrust areas for the next couple of years, where the greater focus would be to draw more funds for conducting research in these areas....read the wave

Profiting From Nanotechnology
By Carl Wherrett and John Yelovich

In this Motley Fool special report, Carl Wherrett and John Yelovich, two longtime contributors to our nanotechnology discussion forum, will be offering an overview of what the science is and where opportunity may lie for investors. Join them for Part 2 next Tuesday, March 2.

In the past few months, most of us following the news wires will have seen the word nanotechnology, or will have seen the announcement of President Bush allocating some $3.7 billion to the research and development of it. Some of us will have seen it long before that, as President Clinton announced allocating some $500 million for nanotech research in 1999. And finally, some of us may well have been around in 1959 when Dr. Richard Feynman first brought the concept into the public arena….read the wave

Stanford goes large-scale on small-scale technology
BY SU FEN LEE

Although nanotechnology works at the tiniest molecular level, it is definitely making its presence felt across the many departments and research centers on campus.
“There is no internationally unified definition for nanotech, but most think that it is coming from the size of 100 nanometers and smaller down to the atomic scale,” said Yoshio Nishi, director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF) and a research professor in electrical engineering....read the wave

NaPa - Emerging Nanopatterning Methods

- Defined nano-patterned catalytic surfaces that may help to implement micro-reaction technologies towards better controlled chemical processes.
- The integration of bio molecules with nano-structured surfaces that promises new functionalities and cost/sample volume reductions in biotechnology and medical sciences….read the wave

Digital pioneers: Xerox PARC scientists honored for groundbreaking work on early computers

Worse Than Gray Goo

Extract from the ( CRN) Responsible Nanotechnology blog

“John Robert Marlow’s novel Nano and a subsequent interview with the author have generated considerable discussion over at the sci.nanotech group…….”
“ Sure, Marlow takes some creative liberties and exaggerates the technology a bit for dramatic purposes—but it’s a science fiction story, after all, and one purpose of storytelling is to make people think about and talk about important issues.
The discussion of how fast (or slow) gray goo could spread is important. Clearly it warrants further study. But other issues beyond gray goo must be studied—some quite urgently” …read the wave

Superswarm.... the superswarm interview

This interview appears jointly on Nanotechnology Now and johnrobertmarlow.com and is copyright © 2004 by John Robert Marlow....read the wave

NANOMAGNETICS HAS NEW MATERIALS IN STORE FOR MEMORY MARKET By Ben Wootliff

British data storage company NanoMagnetics Ltd. took a route down a blind alley, but may have turned around quick enough to put it in firmly in the pack of companies applying nanotechnology to data storage.
The company had planned to take on the hard-disk-drive market. But a slump in the sector forced it to change strategy and instead focus on producing a flexible storage medium…read the wave

Nano Biz: Vietnam

VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT APPROVES $25 MILLION PROJECT TO PRODUCE TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENT;
ALTAIR NANOTECHNOLOGIES CONTRACTS WITH AVIRECO USA TO EVALUATE AHPP FOR PROJECT

Altair Nanotechnologies (NASDAQ:ALTI) announced that, in a written statement issued February 5, 2004, the Vietnamese government has approved a $25 million project to exploit, process and export titanium dioxide pigment. Mineral Development Company No. 6 (Lidisaco), a subsidiary of the Vietnam Mineral Resource Department, will develop the project which is expected to produce approximately 10,000 tons of titanium dioxide annually. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan by the Ministry of Industry and Lidisaco to find additional investment capital for the project by establishing a joint venture with an international partner....read the wave

Nano Chemical: South Korea

LG Chem uses nano technology to develop leak-proof plastic

LG Chem Ltd., the nation's largest chemical company, has used nano technology to develop a plastic to make high-performance containers. The company says the innovation is a world's first and it hopes to lead the multi-trillion won container materials market.
The plastic, known as hyperier, is extremely leak-resistant….read the wave

Nano Biz: Morocco

A SPECIALTIES PLAY,
Technology for nanoparticle zinc oxide gives Moroccan company a noncommodity niche

One of the hottest sectors of nanotechnology—nanoparticle zinc oxide—is becoming a little bit hotter with the entrance of a new player into the marketplace.
The new producer, Casablanca-based Managem, is the mining arm of Moroccan financial holding company ONA. And its emergence as a supplier of specialty mineral derivatives is a linchpin of the firm's strategy to diversify from the ups and downs of commodity mining, according to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rachid Benyakhlef….read the wave

Nano Research: Germany

Tunneling Nanotubes by Henry Fountain

Nanotechnology is the buzzword of the moment in science. Hardly a week goes by without the announcement that a laboratory has developed a new nano-this or nano-that.

It's useful to remember, though, that nature was nano before nano was cool. The latest evidence for this comes from researchers who have discovered that some cells create nanotubes to connect with others….read the wave

Nano Research: USA

DNA Sorts Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes—rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that have a variety of useful mechanical and electrical properties—promise to be an important ingredient in nanotechnology. One challenge, however, is separating different types of nanotubes.

Researchers from Du Pont Central Research and Development, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and MIT have come up with a way to use DNA to separate carbon nanotubes by electrical type—metallic or semiconducting—and by diameter. A carbon nanotubes's electrical properties and diameter are related…read the wave

Nano Research: USA

OHSU researchers discover way to grow silicon nanowires
OGI School of Science & Technology Research is one of a kind in Northwest

Oregon Health & Science University researchers have discovered a new way to accurately grow silicon nanowires on an electrode for use in fabricating transistors. A portion of these findings will be published in the Feb. 23 issue of Applied Physics Letter. The discovery has important implications for semiconductor research and may one day help engineers build faster computer chips.

A research group led by Raj Solanki, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineering professor in OHSU's OGI School of Science & Engineering, recently demonstrated it is possible to grow silicon nanowires exactly where you want them on an electrode using electrical fields. Solanki's team also can grow silicon-based nanowires in the exact direction necessary to fabricate electronic devices.
…read the wave

Nano Event: European NanoBusiness Association

Explaining the science - identifying the issues

March 3rd 2004- Brussels, Belgium: A hearing at the European Parliament (EP), Brussels, organised by the EPP-ED Group in association with the European NanoBusiness Association and Institute of Physics.

The hearing is chaired by Giles Chichester MEP. The speaker panel includes Professor Mark Welland (Director, Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Nanotechnology, University of Cambridge), Dr K Eijkel (Director Nanotechnology Institute Mesa and Technical University Twente), Professor Wolfgang Heckl (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), Ms Fiona Fox (Science Media Centre, London), Dr Renzo Tomellini (EC Nanotechnology Programme), Tim Harper (European Nanotechnology Business Association) and Dr Julia King (The Institute of Physics, London)

The hearing will be in English - there will be full interpretation …read the wave

Nano Event: Japan

World's Largest Nanotech Exhibition and Trade Show, March 17-19

The world's largest nanotechnology trade show and conference, nano tech 2004, will take place March 17-19, 2004 at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight).

Now in its third year the nano tech exhibitions draw more than 250 exhibitors including some of the world's largest companies as well as start-ups, universities and government laboratories from more than 18 countries. Some 30,000 attendees are expected, based on the R&D market growth of nanotechnology in Japan.

nano tech 2003 drew over 24,000 people. ''90% of attendees come from industry; about 50% of registrants are in R&D,'' said Mr. Takahiro Matsui, Secretary General of nano tech executive committee. ''The exhibition will create not only opportunities for direct sales but also opportunities for partnership development and technical applications relationships.''

nano tech 2004 International Conference will be held on March 17-18, in association with more than 10 nanotechnology conferences, during Japan's ''nano week''…read the wave

Semi Nano Event:

IMPACTS OF BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES

The Arlington Institute will sponsor a two-day seminar examining
"Breakthrough Technologies for the World’s Biggest Problems," to be held April 27-28 in Arlington, Virginia. The seminar will feature Ray Kurzweil, Hunter Lovins, Eric Drexler, and others invited to speak about the big problems and opportunities in the coming years. A collection of extraordinary breakthrough technologies for solving
global problems will also be showcased.

"The future of humanity is inextricably linked to technology," says John L. Petersen, president of the Arlington Institute. "The future of the globe pivots on the kinds of tools we do or do not create in the coming years. Enlightened people with old tools will be significantly limited in what they can do to change the planetary footprint. We have to learn how to utilize new breakthrough technologies to solve our biggest, intractable problems--and not kill ourselves in the process."
...read the wave

Nano Research: USA

Scientists Brew Tree-Shaped DNA

Researchers from Cornell University have synthesized a new type of DNA that can be used as a nanotechnology building block.

DNA, whether biological or artificial, consists of a series of nucleotide bases attached to a sugar-phosphate backbone. DNA usually comes in straight strands; these pair up and twist to form the familiar biological double helix.

The Cornell researchers have found a way to make branched, or Y-shaped DNA, and have constructed dendrimer, or tree-shaped, DNA by connecting branched DNA....read the wave

Nano Research:

Reactor made of Gold Tubes
Gold nanotubes in polycarbonate films for the investigation of catalytic reactions at gas-liquid phase boundaries

Nano Research: USA

Nanotechnology: Replicating the Snowflake in the Fab By Jeff Chappell

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Containing the cost of fabrication may be the key to realizing the future of nanotechnology and successfully implementing it in the world of information technology business.

That was the conclusion today of long-time IBM Corp. research veteran Thomas Theis, director of physical sciences for IBM Research. Theis delivered a keynote address here at the SPIE Microlithography Conference….read the wave

Gold-Nanoröhrchen in Polycarbonatfilmen zur Untersuchung katalytischer Reaktionen an Gas-Flüssig-Grenzflächen

Brennstoffzellen brauchen Wasserstoff. Leider enhält Wasserstoff, der nach den üblichen Verfahren hergestellt wird, größere Mengen an Kohlenmonoxid (CO), das die Funktion der Brennstoffzelle beeinträchtig und entfernt werden muss. Wie Forschungen ergeben haben, sind Nanopartikel aus Gold auf einem Trägermaterial mit hoher Oberfläche gute Katalysatoren, um CO bei Raumtemperatur zu CO2 zu oxidieren. Aber was leistet das Gold dabei - und welche Rolle spielt der Träger? Forscher von der University of Wisconsin haben einen "Membranreaktor" entwickelt, mit dem sich der Katalystor ohne seinen Träger untersuchen lässt....read the wave

North American and Israeli nanotech researchers set sights on clean water By Bob Rosenbaum

Israel's nanotechnology program got a significant boost recently, with the first meeting of stakeholders in the Nanotechnology Clean Water Initiative. The Initiative - the result of combined efforts by Dr. Uri Sagman, Prof. Samuel Pohoryles and former prime minister Shimon Peres - has, for the first time, brought together major Israeli university researchers and global industry principals to work on nanotech-based solutions to the water shortage in the Middle East….read the wave

FIRM DEVELOPS METHOD FOR MAKING EXTREMELY SMALL PARTICLES:

Kevin Maloney points toward a 10-foot-by-10-foot office with three desks sublet from another company. That's corporate headquarters for his company, Quantum Sphere.
In a corner of the Irvine warehouse, materials scientist and company founder Doug Carpenter is machining his own parts while the company's major piece of equipment sucks zinc wire in and puffs out white powder…read the wave

C-70 molecules show decoherence

Physicists in Austria have observed decoherence - the transition from quantum to classical behaviour - in carbon-70 molecules. At temperatures below 1000 Kelvin the molecules demonstrate quantum behaviour when they pass through a double slit. However, the molecules gradually become classical at higher temperatures, and the interference pattern - which is the classic sign of quantum behaviour - becomes weaker…read the wave

The US NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

The US National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network is looking for undergraduates for its summer research program. During the summer of 2004, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network will host a Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (NNIN REU) from June through August. Engineering and science students with broad interests across disciplines focusing on nanotechnology…read the wave

Nano Research: Iran

NanoTechnology Newsletter from Iran

University of Southern California researchers have shown that the right amount of noise can enable carbon nanotube transistors to detect weak electrical signals. This is the same effect—stochastic resonance—that neurons use to communicate in biological brains….read the wave

Forschern des Halbleiter-Herstellers Infineon Technologies AG ist es jetzt zum ersten Mal gelungen, Kohlenstoff-Nanoröhrchen auch für die Herstellung von Leistungshalbleitern zu nutzen. Das berichten jetzt Infineon-Wissenschaftler aus München: Sie zeigen den ersten Schalter aus Nanoröhrchen, der Leuchtdioden oder Elektromotoren steuern kann. Dies gilt als Durchbruch für die Nanotechnik, da Wissenschaftler bisher davon ausgegangen sind, dass sich die winzigen Bauteile in atomaren Größenordnungen nicht für die hohen Spannungen und Stromstärken in Leistungshalbleitern eignen. Mit Leistungshalbleitern aus Kohlenstoff-Nanoröhren könnten Stromschalter eines Tages sehr viel kleiner und preiswerter hergestellt werden als bisher....read the wave

Canadian researcher: Cells can grow on silicon

CALGARY (CP) -- Researchers at the University of Calgary have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to the brain.
"We discovered that when we used the chip to stimulate the neurons, their synaptic strength was enhanced," said Naweed Syed, a neurobiologist at the University of Calgary's faculty of medicine.
The nerve cells also exhibited memory traces that were successfully read by the chip, said Syed, co-author of the landmark study published in February's edition of Physical Review Letters, an international journal….read the wave

Studie bewertet Nanotechnologie in der Umwelttechnik

Fraunhofer IAO und das IAT der Universität Stuttgart haben das Zukunftspotenzial der Mikro- und Nanotechnologie für die Umwelttechnik in Baden-Württemberg bewertet. Die Ergebnisse w