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.
Toward molecular level data storage with nanotechnology
British scientists are investigating telescoping carbon nanotubes as a nanotech replacement for current computer memory technologies.
New nanotechnology journal is open access through 2008 and 2009
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 [...]
Artist takes on nanotechnology and privacy
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 [...]
Nanotechnology: utopian, dire, or neither?
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 [...]
What's next for nanotechnology
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: [...]
Nanotechnology: eleven 50-year outlooks
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 [...]
Nanotechnology advice from philosopher & physicist surprisingly useful
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 [...]
German philosophers take on nanotechnology
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: [...]
New Reynolds' book covers nanotech & power
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 [...]
