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| Jared R. McKinley |
 Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 9:57 am |
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I am interested in studying and making a career out of nanotechnology
(Please excuse the elementary questions).
I am primarily interested in the more general study of
nanotechnology-getting us to the place where we build from bottom
up-creating the tools needed for nanotech., working on the feasibility
problems, etc.
In what educational direction should I go? Being an interdisciplinary
science I am not sure where to start-I assume physics or engineering...but I
know there is a lot of bio chem too.
.....and for the more general study of nanotech, which schools are best?
I am aware of the various web pages including foresight's. I wanted more
personal/recent opinions. Do I need to get more specific at this point in my
studies?
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Jared R. McKinley
Sonic1@dellepro.com |
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| 2nr |
| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 2:57 pm |
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| i also am looking for simular info... nanophysics |
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| Matt Kramer |
| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 11:23 pm |
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I also forgot this part of this group's FAQ:
http://sci.nanotech.dyndns.org/FAQ/opportunities.html#3
It specifically answers your question in a much more informative way.
Matt Kramer
Jared R. McKinley wrote:
Quote: I am interested in studying and making a career out of nanotechnology
(Please excuse the elementary questions).
I am primarily interested in the more general study of
nanotechnology-getting us to the place where we build from bottom
up-creating the tools needed for nanotech., working on the feasibility
problems, etc.
In what educational direction should I go? Being an interdisciplinary
science I am not sure where to start-I assume physics or engineering...but I
know there is a lot of bio chem too.
....and for the more general study of nanotech, which schools are best?
I am aware of the various web pages including foresight's. I wanted more
personal/recent opinions. Do I need to get more specific at this point in my
studies? |
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| Chris Phoenix |
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:02 am |
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"Jared R. McKinley" wrote:
Quote: I am primarily interested in the more general study of
nanotechnology-getting us to the place where we build from bottom
up-creating the tools needed for nanotech., working on the feasibility
problems, etc.
In what educational direction should I go? Being an interdisciplinary
science I am not sure where to start-I assume physics or engineering...but I
know there is a lot of bio chem too.
There's not necessarily a lot of biochem. Today's nanoscale
technologies range from semiconductor lithography through materials
science to organic chemistry. Biochem will help with some of this, but
by no means all.
If you're interested in molecular manufacturing, which is farther off,
there are two schools of thought. One is that it can only be done
through self-assembly and other biomimetic techniques. This will be
difficult and allows the topic to be put off for a few decades, which
makes some people more comfortable because they don't want to deal with
the implications of efficient general-purpose nanoscale manufacturing.
The other school asserts that manufacturing closure can also be achieved
by doing chemistry in vacuum, mechanically guided, to make 3D carbon
lattice, which is useful as machine parts, which can do mechanically
guided chemistry. Not a lot of biochemistry here! By changing all the
rules at once, it is thought that a very efficient and reliable
manufacturing system can be created, with productivity comparable to
bacteria (making its own weight in <1 hour), nanoscale precision, and by
combining lots of them in a mini-factory, macroscale products.
For an ongoing discussion comparing biochem-based nanotech to
mechanochem-based nanotech, check out:
http://www.quicktopic.com/24/H/UMabNQK2xXW/p-1.-1
Quote: I am aware of the various web pages including foresight's. I wanted more
personal/recent opinions. Do I need to get more specific at this point in my
studies?
My personal recent opinion: If someone says that machine-type nanotech
is impossible, look for the math. If there's no math, you can probably
ignore it. I haven't seen any credible argument that it's impossible,
and the arguments that it's inefficient are not much better. Meanwhile,
there's a decade of work that says it should probably work just fine,
and should be a major breakthrough in manufacturing capability--probably
enough to replace most of today's manufacturing.
Oh, and my other opinion is that we'll likely see it in a decade, more
or less. Several key nanotechnologies are heading that way rapidly, and
when they converge, a hundred million dollars or so will be enough to
integrate them.
Chris
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Chris Phoenix cphoenix@CRNano.org
Director of Research
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology http://CRNano.org |
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| David Halpern |
| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:18 pm |
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"Matt Kramer" <mjkramer@cs.purdue.edu> wrote in message
news:bov10c0i3c@enews4.newsguy.com...
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I also forgot this part of this group's FAQ:
http://sci.nanotech.dyndns.org/FAQ/opportunities.html#3
It specifically answers your question in a much more informative way.
Matt Kramer
Jared R. McKinley wrote:
I am interested in studying and making a career out of nanotechnology
(Please excuse the elementary questions).
I am primarily interested in the more general study of
nanotechnology-getting us to the place where we build from bottom
up-creating the tools needed for nanotech., working on the feasibility
problems, etc.
In what educational direction should I go? Being an interdisciplinary
science I am not sure where to start-I assume physics or
engineering...but I
know there is a lot of bio chem too.
....and for the more general study of nanotech, which schools are best?
I am aware of the various web pages including foresight's. I wanted more
personal/recent opinions. Do I need to get more specific at this point
in my
studies?
Ah Jared and 2NR you could also study under Distinguished Professor Paras N.
Prasad at SUNY Buffalo.
He is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Medicine, Electrical
Engineering, and Photonics.
Also he taught our Nanophotonics short course at SPIE's Annual Meeting in
Seattle last summer.
Probably one of the top Nanophotonics researchers in the World.
David Halpern
photonicbandgap@earthlink.net
Paras N. Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry
428 Natural Science Complex
Telephone: (716) 645-6800, Ext. 2099
Fax: (716) 645-6945
E-mail: pnprasad@buffalo.edu
http://capem.buffalo.edu/bios/prasad.html |
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