How graphene could complement or replace silicon in electronic applications
A review article presents the amazing features of graphene and discusses how it might complement or replace silicon for the fabrication of electronic devices.
A review article presents the amazing features of graphene and discusses how it might complement or replace silicon for the fabrication of electronic devices.
British scientists are investigating telescoping carbon nanotubes as a nanotech replacement for current computer memory technologies.
A new nanotechnology journal titled Nano Research published by Tsinghua/Springer is now available at http://www.thenanoresearch.com/. The journal is published monthly, and will be open-access in 2008 and 2009. The Editors-in-Chief [...]
Like me, perhaps you normally prefer more traditional art: oil paintings, perhaps. But new art can have an important societal purpose beyond its aesthetic value, and artist Nina Waisman has [...]
Those of us who spend our days looking at innovation would do well to look at the other side now and then. The New Yorker gives us a chance with [...]
A recent issue of the useful journal Nanotechnology Law & Business includes a review (pdf) by Daniel Moore of J. Storrs Hall's book Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology. The conclusion: [...]
The Institute for the Future, in a UK-funded study published on the Stanford website, presents eleven outlooks for nanotechnology over the next 50 years: • Better drug delivery through nanotechnology [...]
First a confession: I have not, in fact, read the entire article "Living with Uncertainty: Toward the Ongoing Normative Assessment of Nanotechnology" by Jean-Pierre Dupuy and Alexei Grinbaum of the [...]
It had to happen: a book in which German philosophers direct their attention to nanotech. (Ethicists and social scientists too.) Excerpts from the English abstracts (pdf), with my commentary inserted: [...]
Foresight director Glenn Reynolds has a new book coming out March 7 which you can order on Amazon now: An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People [...]