Nanotechnology

Gaithersburg, Md., Feb. 26, 2008 — The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting the International Workshop on Documentary Standards for Measurement and Characterization in Nanotechnologies February 26-28. Leaders of international standards committees and measurement laboratories from around the world will exchange information to promote the emergence of high-quality, globally relevant international standards for nanotechnology.    » read more »

Budget Will Also Address Workforce Shortage Needs in Education, Nursing and Engineering

January 30, 2008 -- Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that her revised budget will include $5 million to support industry-university partnerships in nanotechnology research at Yale University and the University of Connecticut.

Nanotechnology is important in medicine, the defense and energy industries and materials science. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter.    » read more »

December 17, 2007 -- Washington, DC - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton welcomed the Department of Energy’s (DOE) decision to grant "Critical Decision 2" (CD-2) status to the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The project will produce broad and practical impacts on a wide range of initiatives in nanotechnology, biomedicine, and clean and affordable energy. This decision is a major step forward for Brookhaven in the long process to make this state-of-the-art research complex a reality.    » read more »

BERKELEY, CA — Make way for the real nanopod and make room in the Guinness World Records. A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have created the first fully functional radio from a single carbon nanotube, which makes it by several orders of magnitude the smallest radio ever made.    » read more »

Lack of government risk research strategy jeopardizes success of technology

13-Sep-2007, WASHINGTON, DC — Almost a year in the making, a federal plan to prioritize research on the potential environmental, health, and safety (EHS) impacts of nanoscale materials has so many failings that its begs the question as to whether the government’s 13-agency nanotechnology research effort is able to deliver an effective risk research strategy, according to David Rejeski, head of the Wilson Center’s Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.    » read more »

NEW TECHNIQUE PRODUCING SMALL THINGS IN LARGE QUANTITIES

HOUSTON, September 4, 2007 – Although relatively new to the market, liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions soon may be obsolete, thanks to a new technique created by University of Houston professors.    » read more »

Sept. 4, 2007 -- DNA is one of the most popular building blocks of nanotechnology and is commonly used to construct ordered nanoscale structures with controlled architectures. For the most part, DNA is looked upon as a promising building block for fabricating microelectronic circuits from the bottom up. Now a team of researchers at Young propose the marriage of DNA self-assembly with standard microfabrication and lithography tools to form features such as nanochannels, nanowires, and nanoscale trenches.    » read more »