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Illustration/Film List from Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Conference Press Release

Important: Please assume all of these are copyrighted.
Permission to use should be obtained, and credits listed.

General illustrations of nanotechnology:

• http://www.imm.org/Parts/Parts1.html
• http://www.imm.org/Parts/Parts2.html
• http://www.imm.org/Parts/Parts3.html

Bucky Horns: Sumio Iijima of NEC Corporation, Japan

• URL to be supplied

Biopowered Nanomotor: Carlo Montemagno of Cornell University

• Technical illustration
• http://www.engr.cornell.edu/aben/Montemagno.html (photo of researcher)
• http://plantcell.lu.se/LTM/05/pict.html (image of F1-ATPase from another group)

Nanomanipulator: MinFeng Yu of Prof. Rod Ruoff's group at Washington University, using new instrument from Zyvex LLC

• Ruoff's group: http://bucky5.wustl.edu/
• Nanogallery of images: http://bucky5.wustl.edu/Science/nanogallery/SPMimages/Results.html
• http://www.zyvex.com for still images of instrument
• Three movies are available in the MOV format:
  • nanobridge.mov
  • nanohook.mov
  • nanoswitch.mov
  • Quicktime^TM (or an alternative movie player) is required to view the movies. Quicktime^TM can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/

Nanotube Transistor: Cees Dekker of Delft University of Technology

• Cees Dekker's main research page: http://vortex.tn.tudelft.nl/~dekker/
• Research on carbon nanotubes: http://vortex.tn.tudelft.nl/~dekker/nanotubes.html
• URL's of images of nanotube transistor:
  • http://vortex.tn.tudelft.nl/~dekker/Swnt_1b.jpg
  • http://vortex.tn.tudelft.nl/~dekker/Tube++b.JPG
  • http://vortex.tn.tudelft.nl/~dekker/fetfinal3.jpg

Single-Molecule Tape Measure: Mark Akeson of UC Santa Cruz

• URL to be supplied

1998 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, Theoretical: Ralph Merkle (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) and Stephen Walch (ELORET at NASA Ames Research Center)

• URL to be supplied for technical illustration
• Photo of Merkle: http://www.merkle.com
• More photos of Merkle avail from Peter Menzel Photography, fax +1 707 255 4720
• Past work by Merkle: http://nano.xerox.com/nanotech/6dof.html
• Photo of Walch: to be supplied

1998 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, Experimental: M. Reza Ghadiri of Scripps Research Institute

• http://www.scripps.edu/pub/chmgrads/chemfac.html#GHADIRI
• http://www.scripps.edu/pub/ghadiri/ home page for his group
• See last image on this page: http://www.scripps.edu/pub/dem-web/lab.html
• Cute animated gif: http://www.scripps.edu/pub/ghadiri/html/molmachines.html

For further information, contact Foresight Executive Director Christine Peterson at +1 650 917 1121 or Conference Co-chairs Al Globus at +1 650-604-4404 and Deepak Srivastava at +1 650 604 3486.

See Press release: http://www.foresight.org/conference/MNT6/release.html

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