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[email protected] writes "Applications are now being accepted to exhibit at Taiwan NanoTech 2005 — Taiwan's first ever nano-technology event that will lead the 4th wave across Asia this September 23 to September 25."

This event brings together years of development of nanotechnology by private, institutional, and government. It underscores the integration of nanotechnology, biotechnology and other high tech industry currently underway at scores of nanotech science parks throughout Taiwan and around the world."

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For those of you who have been waiting for "real" molecular nanotechnology to arrive I would suggest that you might want to visit the highlights documenting the work of the Zettl Research Group at UCB. It has movies associated with their recent papers on a Nanoelectromechanical relaxation oscillator, a Nanoscale mass conveyor and a Synthetic Rotational Nanomotor.

I don't know how they constructed these devices but my impression is — this group is *good*!

Nanopolis writes "The "Exploring Nano-Biotechnology" multimedia encyclopedia, the 4th tome of the Nanopolis e-collaborative series will be worldwide available in March 2006. Containing extremely intuitive multimedia explanations of the concepts, improved analytic techniques, deeper understanding of diseases, deciphering of cellular mechanisms, novel drug development techniques, summary charts show the major players associated with each concept along with the references necessary for further insight. These topics along with other 4000 computer generated films and e-courses from the previous volumes on Synchrotron, Neutrons and Nanotechnology will be accesible through the Nanopolis e-learning platform giving European, American and Asian academic environments access to the largest multimedia educational source on nanoscale science and engineering. Hundreds of world-wide actors contribute to its finalizing through the e-collaborative Nanopolis platform at http://www.nanopolis.net"

bhelfrich writes "Nano-Hive version 1.1.0 for win32-x86 is now available for download. *nix distros will be made available in the coming weeks.

This release adds support for running multiple, multi-threaded simulations simultaneously, each able to access multiple Physical Interaction plugins.

We've also added new plugins.

• MPQC_SClib – This plugin encapsulates the functionality of the Scientific Computing Toolkit (SC) used by the Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry Program (MPQC).
• OpenBabelImportExport – This Data Import/Export plugin adds the ability to read and write many new file types by encapsulating the OpenBabel library.
• SocketsControl – Control Nano-Hive via a TCP socket with this Simulation Control plugin.
• BondCalculator – This Physical Interaction plugin discovers molecules in the simulation space and specifies bonds to describe them.
• BasicCellTraverser – This Entity Traversal plugin divides the simulation space up into sub-cells for multi-threaded calculation.

Also included in this release is an alpha version of the HiveKeeper Graphical User Interface for Nano-Hive (http://www.nano-hive.org/hivekeeper/). The capabilities of the alpha version includes visualization of the molecular structures even while the simulation is running.

Visit http://www.nano-hive.org/ to learn more. Nano-Hive's open source development and distributions are hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nano-hive/"

Editors comment — but when will the software be available for non-windows systems? "*nix" distros in coming weeks sounds rather vague.

Keven Kelleher from TheStreet.com has a good piece here discussing nanohype. Tim Harper had an interesting comment regarding whether people "know the difference between a macrophage and a macromolecule?" Neither of these is strictly about nanotechnology but his question and the answers it might prompt would be illuminating.

Readers might offer better questions to determine "Is or is not someone nanoliterate?"

Jonathan Despres writes "Hi, People interested to give a talk to CryoVenture 2006 shold contact me, I`m very interested to listen to you, we need people giving opinions about cryonics to investors. Feel free to visit our new web site at: www.nanoaging.com/cryoventure –Jon Cryonics: The Next Personal Revolution"

The AZoNano Online Journal of Nanotechnology

The Online Journal of Nanotechnology is based on a free access publishing model, coupled with what is believed to be a unique development in the field of scientific publishing — the distribution of journal revenue between the authors, peer reviewers and site operators.

The revenue received from the journal related advertising and sponsorship will be distributed according to the following general criteria: – Authors receive a revenue share of 50%, – Peer reviewers receive a revenue share of 20%, – The site administrators receive a revenue share of 30%, – This revenue share will apply throughout the online published life of the individual article or paper.

The Online Journal of Nanotechnology will publish high quality articles and papers on all aspects of nanotechnology and related scientific, social and ethical issues. All the contributions will be reviewed by a world class panel of founding editors who are experts in a wide spectrum of nanotechnology science.

Journal papers will benefit from being hosted on the AZoNano.com website and database platform as they will take advantage of existing search tools and be available to a monthly audience of over 130,000 visitor sessions. The unique AZoNano search tools also make it very easy for site visitors to locate nanotech information that relates directly to their research areas, applications and industrial sectors.

The first issue of the News From the Bottom is available.

Nature materials is reporting on the development of static "flash" memory based on antimony telluride "cells" that are flipped between amorphous and crystalline states. These cells may be able to be scaled to 10 nm. The architecture is very simple as it simply requires sensing the resistance of the cell to determine whether it is in a one or zero state. This is distinctly different from current DRAM memory cells which are based on the storage of electrons within a capacitor. Because the electrons leak out of the capacitor it is necessary to include electronics that restore the state of the memory on a continual basis.