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Month: May 2005

Environmental Defense wants 10% of nanofunding for risk ID

Environmental Defense is getting active on nanotech issues, including advocating that of the approximately US$1 billion spent by the US federal government on nanotech, at least $100 million should be spent on nanomaterial risk identification. That’s a lot of money, but we agree the current amount is too small. Industry should support an increase–if the… Continue reading Environmental Defense wants 10% of nanofunding for risk ID

Dendrimer pathway takes leap forward

Those of us tracking bottom-up nanotech have long been keeping an eye on the dendrimer pathway. Now a pioneer in the field is claiming a major breakthrough: “Priostar™ dendrimers radically change the economics of nanotechnology and have broad commercial applications. They share and improve the physical properties of the original PAMAM dendrimers that were invented… Continue reading Dendrimer pathway takes leap forward

Nanoparticle-release complaint cast in doubt

David Berube at U. South Carolina, in an ongoing campaign against nanohype, has been looking into complaints by the ETC Group that a nanoparticle product was approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for use to prevent erosion on Taos Pueblo land in New Mexico. His conclusion: “a review of the actual event discredits their… Continue reading Nanoparticle-release complaint cast in doubt

Molecular evolution by design

Posted by Robert Bradbury: For many years we have had “rational design” of drugs (see drug design) and other small molecules. Unfortunately these developments have been generally limited, particularly with respect to proteins, because we have not really solved the protein folding problem. We have had several companies, particularly Maxygen and Genencor which have worked… Continue reading Molecular evolution by design

Norm Wu insights on ExtremeNano

Foresight participating member Norm Wu has two essays available on the Ziff-Davis ExtremeNano site: one on quantum dots and one on “parallel entrepreneur” David Soane of Nano-Tex. From Soane: “even with a very conservative business plan, each project generally ends up taking twice as long (and costing twice as much) to accomplish…with many twists and… Continue reading Norm Wu insights on ExtremeNano

Yet another nanotech initiative: Iran

Bored with the U.S. NNI? Check out the Iranian NanoTechnology Initiative. It’s a beautiful site due to the pretty alphabet, which is unfortunately completely unreadable by me, Google, or Babelfish. How about a translation of some key elements, readers in Iran? (Credit: Elaine Tschorn)

PCAST does five-year review of NNI

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has issued its five-year review of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative. You can read the whole 60-page pdf, or just Howard Lovy’s humorous summary. Or, go with my summary: They like it.

NanoJury UK to give verdict on nanotech

Greenpeace UK and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) in Nanotechnology at Cambridge University have set up a “Citizen’s Jury” to review risks and opportunities and give a “verdict” on nanotechnology by mid-September. Doug Parr, of Greenpeace, said: “We want to provide an opportunity for people to give their perspectives…at a time when we hope they can… Continue reading NanoJury UK to give verdict on nanotech

Victoria recognizes winning nanotech

As previously mentioned, this year’s top prizes have been awarded in Victorian nanotechnology by NanoVic. But it’s worth calling particular attention to the postgraduate prizes for solar cells and drug delivery. (And when you read about “Victorian nanotechnology,” try not to think of The Diamond Age.) (Credit: Elaine Tschorn)

Nanotech fuel additive wins most-confusing award

H2OIL Corporation President Richard Hicks brings to our attention perhaps the most confusing nanotech product website we’ve seen to date. The company has an impressive list of successes for its fuel additive product, but check out this wording of a recent announcement: “Our 14 years experience in producing nanotechnology fuel additives has helped us realize… Continue reading Nanotech fuel additive wins most-confusing award

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