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NANOSCIENCE NEWS
TECHNOLOGICAL ACCELERATION: A HIDDEN LAW OF NATURE?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Technologist and Singularity Researcher Kurzweil to Debate Vitalist
Denton and Sociologist Tuomi at "Accelerating Change Conference"
STANFORD UNIVERSITY (August 18, 2003) - Ray Kurzweil, noted inventor,
software developer and futurist, will present his work on "the law of
accelerating returns" and debate its merits with biologist Michael
Denton and philosopher Ilkka Tuomi to kick off a weekend conference
devoted to rigorous examination of the apparent acceleration of
technology's development, and the way it affects the human world.
"Accelerating Change '03," organized by the Institute for Accelerating
Change (IAC), will be held at Stanford University's Tresidder Union,
September 12-14. Twenty-four prominent thinkers will offer their
insights from across a broad spectrum of cutting edge disciplines,
such as biological computing, nanotech, interface design, cosmology,
and futurism.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3721
Government lab may give UTA some research muscle
Tom Bickel, director of engineering sciences for Sandia National
Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., said recently that he and other
officials from the research center visited UT-Arlington and UT
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas on Aug. 5. Bickel said in a
recent interview that he sees possibilities for collaboration with
UT-Arlington's nanotechnology program, which works to build tiny
devices on the molecular level, and with UT-Southwestern's biomedical
program.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3720
Tech to host scientists who sweat the small stuff
RAPID CITY Big-time experts in the science of very small things will
gather next week in Rapid City.
Professors at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology have organized
a regional conference on "nano-science and engineering." Nationally
recognized experts will participate.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3719
Nanowire arrays line up for future devices
Researchers from Harvard University, US, have come up with a technique
for building arrays of nanowires from the bottom up. The method, which
can produce structures patterned on multiple length scales and over
large areas, could have applications in making nanodevices.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3718
Equipment suppliers and researchers can benefit from exchange
Sensitive electrical measurements provide the underpinning for many
nanotechnology discoveries, particularly in the areas of materials and
nanoelectronics. They help academic and industrial scientists and
engineers fully understand the electrical properties of new materials,
and the electrical performance of new nanoelectronic devices and
components.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3717
Europe announces more nano creations
As discussions regarding the potential applications of nanotechnology
become more frequent, research results from around Europe are bringing
some of these possibilities to life. German researchers have announced
their development of a nanofilter capable of removing toxins from
blood, while a UK-Italian partnership has succeeded in building the
first nanomotor.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3716
Total recall
In late July, researchers at the Center for NanoTechnology at
University of Wisconsin - Madison's Synchrotron Radiation Center
published a paper about a new manufacturing technique that could
advance the development of nano-electronic processors. The technique
enables greater control in the manufacture of nanometer-sized
molecules, substantially reducing manufacturing costs.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3715
A spray-on computer is way to do IT
SPRAY-ON computers the size of a grain of sand are set to transform
information technology across the world thanks to pioneering research
at Edinburgh University. Scientists at the institution have just been
awarded a 1.3 million grant to develop the "ubiquitous computing"
technology which uses tiny semiconductor specks that can sense,
compute and communicate without wires.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3714
Small sensor sparks big interest
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Small, sensitive, speedy, selective
and simple, a new single-molecule sensor has all the makings of the
ultimate detecting machine. The first-of-its-kind nanoscale system --
more than 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair -- stands
to play a big part in what some scientists see as a revolution in
diagnostics.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3713
Applications of Nanotechnology in Space Developments and Systems
An "A to Z" on the when, where, how, and why nanotechnology will
impact space applications, and much more. Over 125 PDF pages long,
this document carefully outlines the case for nanotech in space.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3712
Nanotech riddle: How green is Europe's goo'?
"Gray goo" refers to the theory of out-of-control, self-replicating
nanobots. But it's "green goo," the concept's environmental cousin,
that is furrowing brows in Europe, raising fears of ecology-wrecking
biological machines. Both varieties of goo have invited themselves
inside the corridors of European power.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3711
Microscope sketches quantum circuits
Physicists at Cambridge University in the UK have developed a new way
to make quantum electronic devices using an atomic force microscope.
The technique, known as erasable electrostatic lithography, allows
researchers to create and change quantum devices and circuits during
an experiment - a feat that was hitherto impossible. Erasable
lithography could be used in experiments to study quantum phenomena
and may also provide a route to the fabrication of a solid-state
quantum computer (R Crook et al. 2003 Nature 424 751).
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3710
UCF brain cell research spawns hope for longer life
University of Central Florida researchers find that nanomaterials
developed for industry triple or quadruple life of brain cells
ORLANDO, Aug. 13, 2003 -- A molecular biologist and a nanoscientist at
the University of Central Florida have found that nanomaterials
developed for industry have an unexpected and potentially
revolutionary side effect: They can triple or quadruple the life of
brain cells. The result is people could live longer and with fewer
age-related health problems. Beverly Rzigalinski, assistant professor
in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology and at the
Biomolecular Sciences Center, and Sudipta Seal, associate engineering
professor at the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center and
the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering,
will receive $1.4 million from the National Institutes of Health,
National Institute on Aging to study the reasons behind the reaction
and possible future applications.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3709
Single Photon Detector Conquers the Dark Side
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) and Boston University have demonstrated a detector that counts
single pulses of light, while simultaneously reducing false or "dark
counts" to virtually zero. Reported in the July 28, 2003, issue of
Applied Physics Letters*, the advance provides a key technology needed
for future development of secure quantum communications and
cryptography. Quantum communications and cryptography is a codemaker's
Holy Grail. The idea is to use a rapid series of light pulses
(photons) in one of two different states to transmit information in an
unbreakable code.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3708
NIST Helps Chip Industry Measure Features by Counting Atoms
The quest to develop the nanotechnology equivalent of
rulerslength-measurement references based on the spacing of atoms in
a perfectly ordered crystalhas inspired a burst of innovation at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Progress to
date has yielded a novel device that can resolve distances smaller
than the radius of an atom and a reliable method for writing
10-nanometer-sized features on silicon. NIST researchers are packaging
the new technology and know-how into a scanning tunneling microscope
(STM) system designed to write patterns with dimensions determined by
counting the atoms that make up the patterns' structural features.
Ultimately aiming for an accuracy of better than 1 nanometer, the team
intends to supply the semiconductor industry with benchmark references
to calibrate measurement tools used in research and production.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3707
Quantum computer keeps it simple
Quantum computing is a great idea, but it's too soon to tell whether
manipulating the quantum world to the necessary degree will ever be a
manageable undertaking. Controlling fleeting quantum particles usually
requires making extraordinarily precise devices. A proposal that calls
for chaperoning pairs of particles and getting all of the particles in
a quantum computer to sing the same tune could ease this burden.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3706
Nanocoils spring into place
Researchers from Northwestern University, US, and Osaka Prefecture
University, Japan, have tested the mechanics of a carbon nanocoil. The
coil, which was just a few microns long, behaved like an elastic
spring.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3705
RESEARCHERS AIM TO END AGONIZING WAIT FOR TRANSPLANTS
Organ farming has always been one of the more macabre slices of
science fiction: mad scientists growing livers, brains, kidneys and
the like in strange tanks, awaiting transplantation into some
Frankenstein creation. Dr. Joseph Vacanti is trying to make organ
farming a reality. His work is anything but a horror show and thanks
to MEMS technology, it won't be the stuff of fiction forever.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3704
Playing God with Monsters
Horrified by "There Be Monsters Here" tales, some members of Congress
called for a ban on DNA research in the mid '70s. Because those calls
were rejected, millions of people around the world can now hope for
DNA-based vaccines against AIDS, malaria and other deadly diseases
that have destroyed lives, communities and nations.Here's an
illustration: The name of Joseph DeRisi keeps coming up in connection
with deadly diseases. No, he's not a modern-day Typhoid Mary. Just the
opposite. The University of California, San Francisco researcher is
using his own custom-built DNA microarrays to look inside the "minds"
of some serious serial killers. The "minds" are genes, and his
home-brewed gene chips helped solve the SARS mystery earlier this
year. Now, DeRisi has chosen malaria as his next victim.For the
complete commentary, please go to Howard Lovy's NanoBot.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3703
The Electric Kool-Aid Nano Test
A great deal has been written in the popular press recently about the
slippery definition of "nanotechnology." At Small Times, we often
subject the word to unspeakable torture in our attempts to extract
information on whether a company conforms. Here's a little peak behind
the scenes in an e-mail exchange between Correspondent Jack Mason,
Staff Writer David Forman and News Editor Howard Lovy.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3702
Movin' Through Casimir
Nano isn't my only obsession. The other is the ultimate fate of the
universe. Really. Just ask my wife. ("Why bother scooping the dog poop
in the backyard if there isn't enough mass in the universe to
guarantee its continued existence?")Last I heard, the universe doesn't
contain enough stuff to reverse the Big Bang and create nature's
ultimate recycling machine: The Big Crunch. Before this disheartening
news hit a year or so ago, it was comforting to think that my atoms
would be re-used in the next spin cycle. But, no, instead the universe
will coast, dim and fizzle.The only hope? An escape hatch. And
nanotech, of course, is coming to the rescue. Purdue physicist Ephraim
Fischbach oh, you beautiful, bald man spends his time like a mime
pretending he's encased in glass, feeling the space around him, hoping
his hand slips into another dimension. The goal might be generations
away, but like Tang and joysticks to the Apollo program the search
can lead to some wonderful discoveries along the way.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3701
Nanotechnology Part II
On 8/7 I spoke on "The Bert Lee [Radio] Show" in Arizona about the
expected ability of nanotechnology, developed in China since 1986,
along with at least six other post-nuclear fields, to destroy the
Western means of nuclear retaliation and thus to eliminate Mutual
Assured Destruction, that is, to disarm the West.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3700
Activists pounce on nanotech scare
COMMENTARY--Being an activist means always having to find something
new to complain about.
For much of the past decade, environmental activists have voiced fears
about bioengineered crops.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3699
Purdue physicists hone rules for nanotech game
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Nanotechnologists could have a firmer handle on
the forces at play in their microscopic world thanks to recent physics
research at Purdue University. The latest in a series of experiments
aimed at revealing fundamental knowledge of the universe has yielded
precise measurement of the so-called Casimir force a force that
could make tiny machines behave erratically, causing a thorn in the
side of nanotechnology manufacturers. A team, including Purdue
physicist Ephraim Fischbach, has answered science's questions about
the Casimir force's effects, which could help manufacturers work
around the problem.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3698
'Spintronics' could enable a new generation of electronic devices,
physicists say
Moore's Law - a dictum of the electronics industry that says the
number of transistors that fit on a computer chip will double every 18
months - may soon face some fundamental roadblocks. Most researchers
think there'll eventually be a limit to how many transistors they can
cram on a chip. But even if Moore's Law could continue to spawn
ever-tinier chips, small electronic devices are plagued by a big
problem: energy loss, or dissipation, as signals pass from one
transistor to the next. Line up all the tiny wires that connect the
transistors in a Pentium chip, and the total length would stretch
almost a mile. A lot of useful energy is lost as heat as electrons
travel that distance.Theoretical physicists at Stanford and the
University of Tokyo think they've found a way to solve the dissipation
problem by manipulating a neglected property of the electron - its
''spin,'' or orientation, typically described by its quantum state as
''up'' or ''down.'' They report their findings in the Aug. 7 issue of
Science Express, an online version of Science magazine. Electronics
relies on Ohm's Law, which says application of a voltage to many
materials results in the creation of a current. That's because
electrons transmit their charge through the materials. But Ohm's Law
also describes the inevitable conversion of electric energy into heat
when electrons encounter resistance as they pass through materials.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3697
PET Publishes First Forecast, Nanotechnology, A Technology Forecast
Texas State Technical College System published the first of an ongoing
series of emerging technology program studies through its Programs for
Emerging Technologies research. The research hopes to drive the
development and support of emerging technology curriculum and
facilitate informed and accurate future curriculum development efforts
for all Texas community and technical colleges.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3696
Next News: Roboblood and Nanotech for the here and now
It's been observed that nanotechnology is the first technology to
spawn a backlash before it has even been developed. Prince Charles
himself has publicly fretted about the potential dangers of runaway
self-replicating nanobots covering the planet in "gray goo."
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3695
Molecule Makes Ring Rotor
At the size-scale where we live, it takes a considerable amount of
force to get something moving, and keep it moving. At the molecular
scale, however, everything above absolute zero is constantly moving.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3694
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NANOBUSINESS NEWS
Thailand: Nanotech to get most of the cash
Nearly half the government overseas scholarships to be awarded to
young Thai scientists next year will be in the field of
nanotechnology, according to an academic involved in the programme.
Harit Sutabutr, adviser to the director of the National Science and
Technology Development Agency, which will administer the programme,
said 45 of the 100 scholarships in master's and doctoral degrees to be
awarded next year had been earmarked for further education in the new
and highly promising field of nanotechnology.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1741
Nano partners with big biz
The nanotechnology genie is out of the bottle and big business is
granting the wishes of the tiny valley companies that are developing
its applications.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1740
BioTrove, Inc. Launches Momentum Technology - Ultra High-Throughput
Mass Spectrometry System - For Functional Assay Development
- New Service to be Introduced at Drug Discovery Technology Conference
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BioTrove, Inc. [profile] today introduced the Momentum technology, a
patented ultra high-throughput mass spectrometry service enabling
microliter-scale functional assay development and screening of
intractable targets for which current technology is not an option.
Through the Momentum Screening Service, BioTrove collaborates with
customers to develop label-free assays and to screen chemical
libraries against biological targets. Detailed information about the
technology is available at BioTrove's Booth # 2023 at The Drug
Discovery Technology World Congress, being held August 11 - 13, 2003
at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1739
Small matter, big impact
BUXTON In this little town, in the basement of a house at the end of
a dirt road, sits a large laser that will make really tiny bubbles,
that might just be the next big thing. The house, laser and patent on
the process to make the bubbles all belong to Mark LeClair, founder of
NanoSpire [profile].
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1738
Biotech a healthy market for chips
Intel [profile] is looking hard at the emerging market of biotech
devices. Dr Mark Blatt, Intel's manager of healthcare strategies,
lifted the lid off a new brew for the chip maker when he attended a
healthcare informatics conference in Australia recently. An energetic
Blatt tossed around ideas such as a diagnostic lab on a chip,
toxin-detecting and analysis-capable bandaids, and ulcer-detecting
stockings for diabetics.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1737
Leaders to discuss trillion-dollar nanotech market
To discuss the trillion-dollar nanotechnology market that experts
believe will be born from research at the molecular scale, 250 leaders
from industry, academics and government will converge Aug. 19 at NASA
Research Park at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1736
Burlington Made to Order for Investor Seeking a Test
Ask Wilbur Ross why he recently agreed to pay $620 million for the
bankrupt Burlington Industries and he is likely to tell the dirty
necktie story. A few months ago Mr. Ross, a Burlington creditor long
before he became a would-be buyer, visited the company's headquarters
in Greensboro, N.C. There, he watched, wincing, as George W. Henderson
III, Burlington's chief executive, spread out a necktie and dotted it
with blobs of ketchup, mustard and red wine. "It was a pretty
expensive Herms tie," Mr. Ross recalled.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1735
EV Group presents new company website www.EVGroup.com
EV Group (EVG) [profile], leading manufacturer of MEMS and
semiconductor wafer processing equipment, announces the relaunch of
its company website www.EVGroup.com. The new internet platform offers
more information and outstanding usability in a new design. The site
structure combines market and product orientation thus providing
tailor-made information for EVG's customers. Direct links between
related topics guarantee fast access to all information relevant for
each market. Visit our website www.EVGroup.com
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1734
UCI Researchers Receive DARPA Grant to Explore Applications of
Nanotechnology for Wireless Communications
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2003--UC Irvine researchers
Peter Burke and William Tang have recently been awarded a $300,000
grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to
develop high-frequency electronic devices based on nanotubes, a new
type of wire made of carbon and measuring just a few atoms in
thickness. The size of transistors used in technology today is
approximately 130 to 180 nanometers. A nanometer is one billionth of a
meter, about the size of 10 atoms across. Peter Burke is an assistant
professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer
science (EECS). His expertise is in the areas of nanometer-scale
device fabrication and nanotechnology. William Tang is a professor in
the department of biomedical engineering and EECS. His background is
in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and system
integration.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1733
Nanotechnology researchers discover that shrinking computer chips is a
tall order
Researchers at Texas Instruments [profile] and the University of North
Texas in Denton received $2.2 million this summer to find a way to
build computer chips half the size of those currently in use.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1732
IBM exec helps bring projects to reality
Since the inception of its first lab in 1945, IBM Research [profile]
has grown to fill eight worldwide labs, employ about 3,500 researchers
- including five Nobel prize winners - and help Big Blue become an IT
innovator and market power across several technology disciplines.
Denise Dubie sat down with Robert Morris, director and vice president
of IBM Research, to discuss how his team determines where to find
tomorrow's technologies.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1731
Nanotech company to codevelop titanium metals for military
RENO, Nev. A nanotechnology developer (Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.
[profile]) and a producer of low cost titanium metals will join forces
to further reduce the cost of titanium production using new
electrolysis technology.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1730
Nevada Ventures Nanoscience Program at Nevada Transforms $300,000 Into
$2.1 Million
University Grows Contribution by 600 percent, Innovative Initiative Is
Model For Others
RENO, Nev., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In an example of the power of
public/private partnerships, the University of Nevada, Reno has used a
$300,000 grant from Nevada Ventures, LLC to attract national funding
from such prestigious sources as the National Science Foundation and
NASA, as well as from industry sources such as Altair Nanotechnologies
and others.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1729
Support growing for federal push toward nanotech energy solutions
In Washington, they liken it to the Manhattan Project. In Houston,
they prefer an Apollo Program metaphor. But the strategists behind two
movements to make energy a priority agree on the need for an all-out
commitment akin to efforts to build an atomic bomb during World War II
and the space race that followed. Department of Energy officials and a
group of scientists and leaders from government and industry attending
a summit at Rice University identified nanotechnology as a keystone to
clean, efficient and affordable energy.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1728
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