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Small returns for nanoscience?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Richard Jones reviews The Nanotech Pioneers: Where are they taking us? (2006 Wiley-VCH 254pp Â£17.99/$27.95hb), a nanotechnology overview by Steven A Edwards. What has the $18 bn spent worldwide on publicly supported nanotechnology research done for us so far? According to some jaded observers, the main outcomes have been stain-resistant trousers and better sunscreen.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - June 5, 2006 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info

Nanophotonics means products, not marketsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nanotechnology has long promised to revolutionize the optics industry, but major commercial success for nanophotonics products has remained elusive. Tom Hausken argues that the revolution is happening, just not in the way that we anticipated. In the first stage of every big new technology, the world seems boundless. In the 1960s, for example, everyone imagined that the space programme would herald the beginning of space tourism and colonies on the Moon.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - May 2, 2006 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info

Fujitsu makes a big push in nanotechnologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Japanese IT and communications giant Fujitsu is investing considerable sums in nanotechnology research. At the Nanotech 2006 event in Tokyo, the company showed off its progress with a large exhibit. Liz Kalaugher spoke to Naoki Yokoyama, general manager of Fujitsu's nanotechnology research centre to find out more. "Nanotechnology is not a dream but very practical," said Yokoyama.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - April 13, 2006 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info

Nanotechnology in the newsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nanotechnology has been the topic of intense media scrutiny over the last couple of years. From grey goo to body-repairing nanobots to space elevators and even to more down-to-earth applications such as targeted drug delivery and nanoelectronics, the media has given its views on nanotechnology.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - January 3, 2006 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info

Seeing with electronsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Commercially available lens correctors are extending the reach of electron microscopes to unprecedented atomic scales, as Peter Nellist describes.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - November 10, 2005 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info

How to get up close to nanotechEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a special wing of a new six-storey building at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, researchers will soon be able to use the â€œquietestâ€? laboratories in Canada. The labs, which open early next year, are specially engineered so that mechanical vibrations, acoustic noise and electromagnetic interference will be as small as possible.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - September 6, 2005 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info

Friction at the nano-scaleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nanomachines will depend on our knowledge of friction, heat transfer and energy dissipation at the atomic level for their very survival. Jacqueline Krim of North Carolina State University, US, explains. In the scramble to revolutionize the world with nanotechnology we must not ignore friction. Nano-scale devices based on moving molecular components have the potential to radically alter technologies such as energy storage, drug delivery, computing, communications and chemical manufacture.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - February 3, 2005 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info

The future of nanotechnologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Visions of self-replicating nanomachines that could devour the Earth in a "grey goo" are probably wide of the mark, but "radical nanotechnology" could still deliver great benefits to society. The question is how best to achieve this goal. Nanotechnology is slowly creeping into popular culture, but not in a way that most scientists will like. There is a great example in Dorian - novelist Will Self's modern reworking of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - August 2, 2004 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info

Quantum change for nanotubesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A metallic carbon nanotube can be made into a semiconductor and vice versa when a magnetic field is combined with a little quantum mechanics. We all remember the infamous experiments carried out by Jan Hendrik Schön in 1999. In his hands, materials that were notorious insulators became conductors when a voltage was changed. Those claims, alas, turned out to be false, and Schön's publications were later retracted.
Source: Nanotechweb.org Feature Articles - July 16, 2004 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: info