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Symposium on Nanotechnology and Patents

MartinMeder writes "There will be an International Symposium on Nanotechnology and Patenting, The Hague, 9-10 November 2004. The proceedings will be in English. The program may be found here: http://academy.epo.org/schedule/2004/_pdf/prog2004 _se1.pdf , while a brief summary can be found here: http://academy.epo.org/schedule/2004/se1/index.en. php The deadline to apply is October 20, 2004. A link to register for the Symposium will eventually appear here: http://academy.epo.org/schedule/"

BBC Reports on Nanotech / Hydrogen energy

Dr_Barnowl writes "The BBC reports on the hydrogen economy in today's Tech column, with an article that shines a positive light on nanotechnlogy; while the focus is on solar hydrogen production, nanocrystalline materials manage to bathe in the reflected glow. The public perception of green energy is a good one, and nanotech can only benefit from being associated with it."

Snapshots of Molecules in Movement

Roland Piquepaille writes "By combining scanning probe microscopy and femtosecond laser techniques, a team of American researchers was able to take snapshots of the movement of molecules in a billionth of a second. The researchers said this is a significant advance in surface science, which studies phenomena such as the formation of crystals and the activity of catalysts that transform pollutants into benign gasses. Their next step will be to shoot real-time, real-space movies of molecular motions. This overview contains more details and an illustration of the process of using femtosecond laser pulses to measure molecular movements at a nanoscale level. It also contains other references to femtosecond lasers."

Foresight Institute Appoints Scott Mize President

Foresight Institute has appointed Scott Mize to the position of President. "This is an important step in our evolution," said Christine Peterson, Founder and former President of Foresight Institute. Peterson will remain with Foresight Institute as Vice President focusing on public policy, legislative issues and education.

Nanomedicine Breakthroughs at Xerox's PARC

Roland Piquepaille writes "The new Scripps-PARC Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (SPIABS for short) is the fruit of the union between Xerox's PARC and the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and promises to transform medical research and the practice of medicine. The Mercury News writes that it's making a big leap to innovation in medicine. SPIABS already announced an enthalpy array, an extremely precise nanocalorimeter. It can detect changes of millionths of a degree in temperature, using samples of only 240 nanoliters. This nanocalorimeter will be used to "help pharmaceutical companies quickly pick out the best drug candidates and get improved medications to market sooner." Earlier this year, SPIABS unveiled the FAST cytometer, a laser scanning device so precise it can spot a single cancerous cell in the middle of the ten other millions contained in a standard blood sample. And SPIABS is working on other projects, such as sutures sewn on the perimeter of a removed tumor, equipped with laser diodes to spot and kill new cancerous cells as soon as they appear. Please read this overview for more details, references and pictures."

Nanoimprint lithography

RobertBradbury writes "Space Daily had a recent article about progress by Stephen Chou's group (at the NanoStructures Lab) with nanoimprint lithography. Their most recent article in Applied Physics Letters is here [1]. They are getting down to 5nm ridges spaced 14nm apart. From the looks of NNT conference program last December this area is getting hot."

Nanoscale wires with interesting properties

RobertBradbury writes "Chongwu Zhou at USC has demonstrated a combination of chemical vapor deposition and pulsed laser deposition that can produce multi-material nanowires (diameters 30-100 nm, length up to 3000 nm). News here. The process appears to be able to produce the nanowires in quantity (from a nanoscale perspective). Interestingly the material that determines the properties of the wire is on the outside rather than the inside of the cable as is the case with coax and glass fiber.

Now of course if the high temperature superconductor varient of these wires could be positioned and bonded in place on semiconductor chips one would have a new and interesting method for connecting the transistors on the chips. I've seen claims that some types of buckytubes are good conductors — but are they anywhere close to HTSC?"

Singularity Institute on "3 Laws"

Tyler Emerson writes "In anticipation of 20th Century Foxís July 16th release of I, Robot, the Singularity Institute announces ì3 Laws Unsafeî ì3 Laws Unsafeî explores the problems presented by Isaac Asimovís Three Laws of Robotics, the principles intended for ensuring that robots help, but never harm, humans. The Three Laws are widely known and are often taken seriously as reasonable solutions for guiding future AI. But are they truly reasonable? ì3 Laws Unsafeî addresses this question."

New Conference for Advanced Nanotechnology

Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank, is sponsoring the 1st Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology: Research, Applications, and Policy, October 22-24, 2004 at the Crystal City Marriott Hotel, Washington DC area. "This is the first conference to focus on molecular machine systems and advanced nanotechnology," said Christine Peterson, president and founder of Foresight Institute. "The Conference targets the bottom-up goal of molecular machine systems and what this Next Industrial Revolution will mean for the environment, medicine, national competitiveness, and defense."

Nanotech Communication Prize deadline July 31

To promote responsible coverage and assist society in making informed decisions about advanced nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing, Foresight Institute has established a communication prize. The nomination deadline for the 2004 Foresight Institute Prize in Communication is July 31.

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