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Ten-year Review of National Nanotechnology Initiative Focuses on Manufacturing, Metrics and Brain Drain (IEEE Spectrum)
PCAST’s full report is not yet available. However, its major recommendations include focusing future funding at addressing the manufacturing of nano-enabled products as opposed to solely funding basic research while still not abandoning basic research. (more here…) Related items Reportlinker Adds Nanotechnology in Coatings and Adhesive Applications: Global Markets (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Reportlinker Adds Worldwide Nanotechnology... »
Is British industry the new financial services? (Independent)
Manufacturing has long been the poor relation of the British economy, often characterised as a sector in inexorable decline, overshadowed by the booming modernity of super-sexy high finance. But in the wake of the collapse of the banks, politicians from across the spectrum are turning back to making things, in an effort to “re-balance”... »
Engineers Explore Environmental Concerns Of Nanotechnology (Medical News Today)
As researchers around the world hasten to employ nanotechnology to improve production methods for applications that range from manufacturing materials to creating new pharmaceutical drugs, a separate but equally compelling challenge exists. History has shown that previous industrial revolutions, such as those involving asbestos and chloroflurocarbons, have had some serious environmental impacts… (read the story…) Related... »
Engineers explore environmental concerns of nanotechnology (PhysOrg)
As researchers around the world hasten to employ nanotechnology to improve production methods for applications that range from manufacturing materials to creating new pharmaceutical drugs, a separate but equally compelling challenge exists. (read the story…) Related items Engineers Explore Environmental Concerns Of Nanotechnology (Medical News Today) Engineers explore environmental concerns of nanotechnology (EurekAlert!) NC one of the top ten... »
Watching crystals grow provides clues to making smoother, defect-free thin films (Science Daily)
To make thin films for semiconductors in electronic devices, layers of atoms must be grown in neat, crystalline sheets. But while some materials grow smooth crystals, others tend to develop bumps and defects — a serious problem for thin-film manufacturing. Physicists shed new light on how atoms arrange themselves into thin films. (read on…) Related items Spasers... »
