The Foresight Institute announced the Feynman Prize Finalists, and also announced doubling the prize purse. Once again separate prizes will be awarded for theoretical work and for experimental work in molecular nanotechnology, and will be presented at the 1st Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology, Research, Applications, and Policy, to be held October 21-24, 2004, at the Crystal City Marriott Hotel (Washington, DC Area).
JohnFaith writes " Here's an article from Technology Research News about tools being developed for designing DNA structures with carbon nanotubes. The DNA assembles into a matrix and the semiconducting carbon nanotubes form transistors in the spaces between the DNA. The work is happening at Duke , with more papers and info at Chris Dwyer's page. Interesting to see research that may provide arbitrarily complex 2D structures versus homogeneous films."
