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on Nanotechnology The Future of Manufacturing is Nanotechnology! -- If you have not yet heard about nanotechnology, you will, and you must read on. If you are a manufacturer and do not know about what is happening in nanofabrication, we advise you to learn about it and to track how fast developments are occurring. These techniques will revolutionize everything being done today to manufacture a product. If you thought the Internet created chaos in the business world, "you ain't seen nothin' yet." This web site was created to provide information to manufacturers about nanotechnology through links to sites maintained by those working directly in nanotechnology research. Use these links to follow the progress of this revolutionary technology and think about the impact on your business. Following are some of the best links to follow developments in nanotechnology: National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) by the U.S. Government U.S. Provides $1 billion for NNI in FY2005 The Bush Administration's budget for FY 2005 for the U.S. federal government again increased research and development funding for nanotechnology-related programs, going up to $1 billion from the $847 million approved by Congress for FY 2004. The National Science Foundation, as the lead agency for the National Nanotechnology Initiative, has posted a brief summary of federal nanotechnology-related programs in this budget, broken out in ten federal departments and agencies. A summary document for NNI funding for FY 2005 is available at http://www.nano.gov/html/about/nnibudget.html. In addition, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) R&D Budget and Policy Program has published an analysis of the budget at http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/rdwwwpg.htm To follow news events and announcements about nanotechnology, a terrific web site is Small Times at www.smalltimes.com. This site reports current information about nanobusiness as well as scientific and political information about MEMs, Microsystems and nanotechnologies.
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Scientists and engineers have learned how to control materials down to the molecular level. Nanotechnology is the science of building or manufacturing by controlling the placement of molecules, one by one. These techniques give us thorough, and ultimately inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Applications of nanotechnology are being studied for manufacturing of products, medicine and health care, space exploration, food production, warfare, and many other uses. As a manufacturer today, you either take many small parts or components and assemble them to make a finished product, or you take a larger "chunk" of material and cut it down into the shape you need. This is the same concept used in nanotechnology, but on a much smaller scale. Here's an excerpt from the video storyboard of the joint nanotechnology videoproject written and animated by Nanotechnology Magazine and produced by The Discovery Channel, Canada.
Centers for Nanotechnology research
(general) Centers for research in nanotechnology are being established at an increasing rate as more scientists and engineers come to understand the importance of the technology and redirect their research efforts to take advantage of new federal R&D programs. National
Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN)
Centers for Nanotechnology Research in New York State: Following are some of New York State's centers conducting research in nanotechnology: Cornell
Nanofabrication Facility The
Nanobiotechnology Center Cornell
Center for Materials Research (CCMR) The mission of CCMR is to advance, explore and exploit the forefront of the science and engineering of advanced materials. The unifying theme of their current research is the study of materials purposefully structured at the nanoscale (near atomic dimensions). They aim to be world leaders in the design, control and understanding of the behavior of both crystalline and disordered nano-materials. This objective is pursued through fundamental experimental and theoretical studies of the assembly and processing of nano-materials and of their resulting behavior. CCMR plays a leading role in fostering a long tradition of interdepartmental, interdisciplinary cooperation and collaboration and in increasing such interaction with outside organizations. Approximately one hundred faculty members from ten departments are active members of CCMR. The Center is primarily supported by the National Science Foundation's
Division of Materials Research, but also by generous contributions
from Cornell University, by critical Industrial grants and gifts,
and most recently by NYSTAR for CCMR's Industrial Outreach Program
Columbia University *
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - * Materials Research Science & Engineering Center http://research.radlab.columbia.edu/mrsec/ *
Environmental Molecular Science Institute - *
Columbia nanotechnology
homepage -
Clarkson
University CAMP The following researchers work
in nanotechnology-related areas: CAMP research topics include:
Industrial applications for some of CAMP's research include, but are not limited to, imaging (toners and inks, and phosphors for displays), microelectronics (thin film deposition, and wafer cleaning and polishing), catalysts (such as destruction or conversion of materials of environmental concern) and pharmaceutical, health and personal care (drug delivery vehicles, cosmetic materials).
Albany
Nanotech at the University at Albany - SUNY
NYSTAR
Research Centers in Nanotechnology and Microelectronics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center Rensselaer
Named One of Six National Nanotechnology Centers - NSF to Provide
$10 Million in Funding According to Shirley Ann Jackson, president of RPI, "This Center will significantly advance nanotechnology research, will serve the National Nanotechnology Initiative, and will contribute to the economic growth of the Capital Region. To be selected with Cornell and Columbia as leaders in this vital effort underscores the strength of New York universities in nanotechnology research."
Foresight is a nonprofit educational organization formed to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies. Their "primary focus is on molecular nanotechnology: the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision." The Foresight web page has links to many publications, including to entire full text sources by Eric Drexler, Chairman of the Foresight Institute. Drexler is the individual responsible for advancing our knowledge about principles first presented by Richard Feynman, MIT physicist at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech in 1959. In 1965, Feynman won the Nobel Laureate in Physics, and died in 1988. Nanodot
The nanodot website is maintained by Foresight and provides information on topics of interest, and the latest news. It also includes a 280-page report from the U.S. National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Enginering and Technology (NSET) which features presentations from a workshop on the Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. This program was held at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. in September 2000. NSET is the coordinating body for the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). A full copy of the report is available on the Web as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file at http://itri.loyola.edu/nano/NSET.Societal.Implications/.
Engines of Creation, by K. Eric Drexler Engines of Creation was originally published by Anchor Books in 1986. This WWW version was reprinted and adapted by Russell Whitaker and can be read online. It explains the foundations of nanotechnology and why this will all come to fruition. It is an easy read and will convince you it is a technology to follow. Excerpt from Marvin Minsky's foreward:
Unbounding the Future, by Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson, with Gayle Pergamit, published in 1991 by William Morrow and Company, Inc., and produced for the Web by E-SPACES. This book presents nanotechnology concepts in an easy-to-understand format for the non-scientist. It combines factual descriptions with future scenarios based on those facts to give the reader a vision of nanotechnology's potential influence on human affairs.
Social Implications of Nanotechnology In addition to the NSET report on societal implications mentioned above in the section on Nanodot, following are other organizations which have reports, articles and commentary on related topics. Rand Corporation The Rand Corporation's report on "the Global Technology Revolution: Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with Information Technology by 2015" examines potential effects of several technologies through 2015. This report addresses global impact from biotechnology, nanotechnology, advanced materials, and information technology in social, political, economic and environmental arenas. The report also addresses the synergies that will potentially be created from combinations of these technologies over the next 15 years. The full report is available online as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file at http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1307/. The American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) The
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook looks back at 2000 on
the debate over nanotechnology, genetics and robotics. The full
Yearbook and other items are available online as Adobe Acrobat PDF
files at http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/yrbk01.htm
Nanotechnology in Manufacturing - Site which describes nanotechnology's application to manufacturing in an Autodesk Technology Forum Presentation given by John Walker on May 10th, 1990 entitled, "What Next? The Coming Revolution In Manufacturing"
Read up-to-the-minute nanotechnology headlines from commercial news sources including SciCentral, Yahoo News, BBC News, CNN Technology News, News Index, ABC News, and university research news sources. Nanotechnology Images
Nanotechnology Link Sites
This page developed by Marcene
Sonneborn, TDO's SBIR
Specialist. Updated 1/6/2005 (RIT)
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