For students and faculties:
Nanotechnology timelines and mapviews in Google Experimental
Live Webcast Of New Report On Nanotechnology Wednesday, May 23, 2007,
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Three days of nanotechnology bootcamp Sept 2007
NIST Nano Center Accepting Proposals
Shared-use facility : The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology consists of a
Research Program and the Nanofab, a shared-use facility providing economical access to stateof-the-art nanofabrication and nano-measurement tools. The CNST Nanofab is now available for use by non-NIST users . See "What we do", to the left, for a description of CNST and its Research
Program and the CNST Nanofab and its use policies.
Global News:
Nanotechnology water desalination for Australia
Australia's Leading Nanotechnology Education Centre Opens at St Helena
UK publishes report on environmental benefits of nanotechnology
Kalam for speedy commercialisation of nano -tech India
ISRAEL PLANS NANO -SATELLITE LAUNCH
Recommendations for European nanotechnology transfer from lab to fab
Nanotechnology In China Is Focusing On Innovations And New ...
Anna Univarsity introduces course in nanotechnology Chennai, India
US Statewide News:
International SEMATECH agrees to locate headquarters at UAlbany ...
Mapping the New US “ Nano Metro” Economy
Journal and Book:
Nano-Products:
Nanofactory Product Examples
Creative announces player to rival iPod Nano
CAS reports progress in developing nanotechnology data storage
New nano -glue withstands high temperatures: First of its kind
Advanced Ceramics and Nano Ceramic Powders market report just ...
Nanotechnology is now used in nearly 500 everyday products
Nanotechnology Restores Art Masterpieces
Third-Order Nanotechnologies Achieves Major Technical Breakthrough ...
Nexus Nano Electronics to Provide Circuit Board Assemblies for ...
Nanopackaging Is Intelligent, Smart And Safe Life. New World Study ...
Research News:
Analysis: Cancer in nano's crosshairs british take focus on smallplot gardening techniques to the ‘ nano ...
UK: Nanotechnology could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Chemists Use Nanotechnology to Penetrate Plant Cell Walls
Nanotechnology fingerprint analysis could replace blood sample

Nano Bandage Stops Bleeding
Computer simulation studies of three dimensional magnetic nano ...
Scientists target cancer cells with nanotechnology
University of Southern California Gets $2.7 Million Nanoscience Grant
Nano -pulses for computer memory
Business:
Does Nanotechnology need Venture Capital to be Successful?
Greenyarn partners NUS in creating innovative Nanotechnology products
Nano -Terra Inc. Announces Multi-Year Development and Licensing ...
UWP to offer minor in MEMS/ Nanotechnology
Aggressive Stock Alert: TDON! May 17, 2007
Profit From Nanotechnology's Dream Material
TSMC to fab up Spansion 40 nano flash
BioForce Nanosciences Reports Record Revenues, First Quarter 2007 ...
Articles & Reports:
Nanotechnology for drug detection
Nanotechnology supercomputing center
Nanotechnology pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics
The science at nano level
Big future described for nanotechnology
Silent Growth Of Nanotechnology Application In Every Industry ...
Nano-Risks:
NRDC Sounds Alarm On Risks Of Nano -Scale Chemistry
EPA and Nanotechnology : Oversight for the 21st Century a New Report
Nanotechnology , nanoregulation
New Nanotechnology Database for Societal and Ethical Implications
Awards:
Pioneer In Nanotechnology To Receive $500000 Waterman Award
University of Southern California Gets $2.7 Million Nanoscience Grant
Jobs:
Nanotechnology Job Center - http://understandingnano.tinytechjobs.com/
Conference:
Productive Nanosystems Conference
Education & Outreach:
UWP to offer minor in MEMS/ Nanotechnology
HEADLINES - Week 20: nanotechweb.org News

1. Business briefs
A round up of this week's nanotech news featuring Nano-Terra, BioForce, Nanocyl and more See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/5/18?alert=1
2. NanoTech 2007 - show preview
NSTI's NanoTech 2007 show is billed as the largest international nanotechnology conference and trade show in the world. Now in its 10th year, the event boasts around 1000 presentations and brings together more than 3000 scientists and business leaders. Michael Doyle, NSTI's marketing director and strategic consultant, speaks with James Tyrrell.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/5/17?alert=1
3. Nanospears strike at gas detection
Spear-like In-O-N nanostructures created in China could be ideal for gas sensing applications such as NO2 and alcohol detection as well as the measurement of air humidity. Thanks to their high surface area, nanospears have the potential to outperform simpler structures including nanowires, nanobelts and nanotubes say scientists.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/5/16?alert=1
4. Beetles turn to nanotechnology
A South American beetle with an unusual shell made up of stacked nanolayers could provide the inspiration for making tuneable micro-mirrors for optical applications, say physicists in the UK.
Sharon Jewell and a colleague at the University of Exeter have shown that the beetle's novel microstructure can control both the polarization and wavelength of light reflected
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a first in the animal world.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/5/15?alert=1
5. Porous nanoparticles deliver chemicals into plants
Although nanoparticles can be used to deliver DNA, drugs and other molecules into animal cells, this is not so easy to do in plants because of their cell walls, which act as barriers. Now, researchers at Iowa State University in the US have succeeded in overcoming this problem by using silica nanoparticles with a honeycomb shape. The nanoparticles have pores measuring just
3 nm across and can transport DNA and chemicals into isolated cells and intact leaves. The breakthrough result could find applications in plant biotechnology and might even be used to improve crops in the future.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/5/14?alert=1
6. New look for optical data storage
Physicists in the UK have made the first optical memory element with information encoded in the structural phase of a single gallium nanoparticle. The new memory element is about the same size as bit cells in next-generation hard disks, but requires much less energy to switch from one state to another than current DVDs or DVRs.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/5/13?alert=1
Nanogirl News - brought to you by Nanotechnology Industries www.nanoindustries.com/
Issue May 19, 2007
Nanotechnology is showing promise in treating spinal cord injuries and could conceivably reverse paralysis, according to a report on the future of the emerging technology in medicine. The report, released at a Washington forum this week, said nanotechnology -- or the use of materials on the scale of atoms and molecules -- may also help cure other ailments believed to be intractable by repairing damaged organs or tissue.

This suggests damage from heart attacks or strokes, bone or tooth loss or ailments such as diabetes and Parkinson's disease could be treated with nanotechnology, researchers said.
(Yahoo News 4.27.07) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070427/ts_alt_afp/ushealthmedicinenanotechnology_0704
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100% Biodegradable NANOIL Ready For Automobiles. Nano Chemical Systems
Holdings, Inc., announced recently their latest entry into the multi-billion dollar performance chemical category, NANOIL, a "nano-enhanced" GREEN motor oil. Unlike today's fossil and synthetic oils, NANOIL is non-toxic and bio-degradable, thus eliminating the current disposal issues with present commercially available lubricants.
Nanochem will produce NANOIL utilizing its nano-technology patent applications and inventions that directly address bio-fuel production for a nano-enhanced line of "green" bio-lubricants. Initial results indicate that these bio-lubricants can perform as well as today's fossil and synthetic oils. (Chemical Online 4.27.07) http://www.chemicalonline.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=8a929e6c-ee2d-4523-
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NIST Nano Center Accepting Proposals. Looking for a state-of-the-art place to study nanotechnology-related products? If yes, then the U.S. Commerce Department's National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may be able to help. (Industry Week
5.15.07) http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14196
Finding by Rice University chemists could aid development of new nanodevices. Gold nanorods assemble themselves into rings. Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny building blocks known as gold nanorods spontaneously assemble themselves into ring-like superstructures. This finding, which will be published as the inside cover article of the March 19 international edition of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, could potentially lead to the development of novel nanodevices like highly sensitive optical sensors, superlenses, and even invisible objects for use in the military.
(Rice University 3.9.07) http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=9358&SnID=41579
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Engines of Creation 2.0: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology - Updated and Expanded
By K. Eric Drexler (father of nanotechnology) is available exclusively from WOWIO at www.wowio.com and is free of charge to registered users.
Plenty of room for MRIs at a nano scale... a research team now reports. Combining an
MRI with the precision of atomic-force microscopes, a team led by Dan Rugar of the
IBM Research Division in San Jose, Calif., unveiled MRI images 60,000 times smaller than anything imaged by MRI previously, down to 90 nanometer resolution - about 10 times bigger than your typical molecule and right in the range of the integrated circuits doing all the calculations behind your computer screen. The result, the team writes in the current Nature Nanotechnology journal, "demonstrates the feasibility of pushing MRI into the nanoscale regime." (USA Today 5.1.07)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2007-04-29-nanomri_N.htm?csp=34
Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells. A team of Iowa State University plant scientists and materials chemists have successfully used nanotechnology to penetrate plant cell walls and simultaneously deliver a gene and a chemical that triggers its expression with controlled precision. Their breakthrough brings nanotechnology to plant biology and agricultural biotechnology, creating a powerful new tool for targeted delivery into plant cells. (Iowa State University 5.16.07) http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2007/may/nanotech.shtml
Super small nanoelectrodes can probe microscale environments. Investigating the composition and behavior of microscale environments, including those within living cells, could become easier and more precise with nanoelectrodes being developed at the
University of Illinois. "The individual nanotube-based probes can be used for electrochemical and biochemical sensing," said Min-Feng Yu, a U. of I. professor of mechanical science and engineering, and a researcher at the university's Beckman
Institute. "The position of the nanoelectrodes can be controlled very accurately."
(U of Ill at Urbana-Champaign 3.9.07) http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/0309nanoelectrodes.html
An Australian biotechnology firm said on Thursday it had developed a means of delivering anti-cancer drugs directly to cancer cells, which aims to avoid the debilitating toxicity associated with chemotherapy. The method uses nanotechnology, which involves molecules far smaller than a human cell. Direct targeting of chemotherapy drugs would allow dosages thousands of times lower than that in conventional chemotherapy and be more easily tolerated by patients, said the firm. Writing in the May issue of U.S.-based
Cancer Cell journal, the biotech firm EnGeneIC said it had developed nano-cells containing chemotherapy drugs. (Yahoo 5.10.07) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070510/hl_nm/cancer_australia_dc_1
New JILA apparatus measures fast nanoscale motions. A new nanoscale apparatus developed at JILA-a tiny gold beam whose 40 million vibrations per second are measured by hopping electrons-offers the potential for a 500-fold increase in the speed of scanning tunneling microscopes (STM), perhaps paving the way for scientists to watch atoms vibrate in high definition in real time. The new device measures the wiggling of the beam, or, more precisely, the space between it and an electrically conducting point just a single atom wide, based on the speed of electrons "tunneling" across the gap. The work is the first use of an "atomic point contact," the business end of an STM, to sense a nanomechanical device oscillating at its "resonant" frequency, where it naturally vibrates like a tuning fork. (EurekAlert 3.16.07) http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-
03/nios-nja031607.php
A new nano-insulin delivery pump for worry-free treatment for diabetics...In what may be a sizeable breakthrough in medical technology (and quite a relief for diabetics), medical device company Debiotech and Switzerland-based STMicroelectronics have

entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to manufacture and deliver the awardwinning miniaturised insulin-delivery pump. (Business Standard 5.1.07) http://www.businessstandard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=282949&leftnm=8&subLeft=0&chkFlg=
Top tiny creations. A recent story about 'microscopic alphabet soup' created at UCLA got us thinking about all the quirky ways researchers have chosen to demonstrate new micro, nano-scale technology. (New Scientist Technology Blog 3.22.07) http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/03/top-tinycreations.html?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=nano
Paralyzed Mice Walk Again. Scientists Use Nanotechnology to Mend Broken Spinal
Cords. Samuel Stupp has a bunch of mice that used to drag their hind legs behind them when they crawled around his Illinois lab, but they have miraculously regained at least partial use of their rear legs. Astonishingly, their severed spinal cords have been repaired, at least partly, without surgery or drugs. All it took was a simple injection of a liquid containing tiny molecular structures developed by Stupp and his colleagues at
Northwestern University. Six weeks later, the mice were able to walk again. They don't have their former agility, but their injuries should have left them paralyzed for life...
Stupp's team concentrates on combining the incredibly small world of nanotechnology with biology, creating molecules that self-assemble into large molecular structures that can literally "hug" around cells in the human body. (ABC News 5.1.07) http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3102679&page=1&CMP=OTC-
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A Single-Photon Server with Just One Atom. Physicists at Max Planck Institute of
Quantum Optics have succeeded in turning a Rubidium atom into a single-photon server.
The high quality of the single photons and their ready availability are important for future quantum information processing experiments with single photons. In the relatively new field of quantum information processing the goal is to make use of quantum mechanics to compute certain tasks much more efficiently than with a classical computer. (Max Planck
Society 3.12.07) http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/200
7/pressRelease200703091/index.html
Magnetic tweezers unravel cellular mechanics. By injecting tiny magnetic beads into a living cell and manipulating them with a magnetic 'tweezer', scientists of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, succeed in getting to know more about the mechanics of the cell nucleus. (physorg 5.14.07) http://www.physorg.com/news98378757.html
Student Creates Garment With Bacteria-trapping Nanofibers. Fashion designers and fiber scientists at Cornell have taken "functional clothing" to a whole new level. They have designed a garment that can prevent colds and flu and never needs washing, and another that destroys harmful gases and protects the wearer from smog and air pollution. The two-toned gold dress and metallic denim jacket, featured at the April 21 Cornell Design
League fashion show, contain cotton fabrics coated with nanoparticles that give them

functional qualities never before seen in the fashion world. (Science Daily 5.7.07) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070506091754.htm
Inexpensive 'nanoglue' can bond nearly anything together. Researchers at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to bond materials that don't normally stick together. The team's adhesive, which is based on self-assembling nanoscale chains, could impact everything from next-generation computer chip manufacturing to energy production. Less than a nanometer - or one billionth of a meter - thick, the nanoglue is inexpensive to make and can withstand temperatures far higher than what was previously envisioned. In fact, the adhesive's molecular bonds strengthen when exposed to heat.
(EurekAlert 4.16.07) http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/rpi-ic051507.php
Demand for nanotech-based medicine grows. U.S. demand for nanotechnology medical products will increase over 17 percent per year to $53 billion in 2011, says The Freedonia
Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industry research firm. Afterwards, the increasing flow of new nanomedicines, nanodiagnostics, and nanotech-based medical supplies and devices into the US market will boost demand to more than $110 billion in 2016. The firm reports these and other findings in its new study, Nanotechnology in Healthcare. (SmallTimes
3.19.07) http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ONART&C=Bio&ART
ICLE_ID=287462&p=109
Lighting the nanoworld with nanolamps. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at
Cornell University (CU) has built 'nanolamps.' These extremely small light bulbs are made of light-emitting nanofibers about the size of a virus or the tiniest of bacteria. Using a technique called electrospinning, the researchers spun the fibers from a metallic element, the ruthenium, and a polymer. These nanofibers "are so small that they are less than the wavelength of the light they emit." Apparently, these nanofibers are easy to produce. But before they can be integrated into our increasingly smaller electronic devices, there still is a need to know how long these nanolamps can last.
(ZDnet 4.14.07) http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=542
Nanoparticles 'safe for soil bugs'. Ronald Turco at Purdue University in West Lafayette,
Indiana, and his colleagues have found that fullerenes, nanoscale carbon spheres, do not harm microbes when released into the soil. Their study is the first of its kind to focus on soil microbes, which play a key role in recycling nutrients used by plants (Environmental
Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/es061953l).(NewScientist 5.5.07) http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426025.800&feedId=nanotechnolog y_rss20
Nanorockets - the ultimate baby boosters? Brian Gilchrists. design for a rocket ship sounds like a bad joke. For a start, its engine is about the size of a single bacterium. And for thrust it relies on the equivalent of chucking microscopic beer cans out of the spacecraft's rear window. Gilchrist, an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, is not joking though. He proposes to harness the latest nanotechnology to create an engine that will make its way across the solar system by firing out minute metal

particles like so much nano-sized grapeshot. (New Scientist 3.24.07) http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325961.500&feedId=fundamentals_rss2
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Growing Nerve Cells in 3-D Dramatically Affects Gene Expression. Nerve cells grown in three-dimensional environments deploy hundreds of different genes compared with cells grown in standard two-dimensional petri dishes, according to a new Brown University study. The research, spearheaded by bioengineer Diane Hoffman-Kim, adds to a growing body of evidence that lab culture techniques dramatically affect the way these cells behave. (Brown 5.15.07) http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-156.html
The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen. Using techniques that could revolutionize manufacturing for certain materials, researchers have grown carbon nanotubes that are the longest in the world. While still slightly less than 2 centimeters long, each nanotube is 900,000 times longer than its diameter. The fibers--which have the potential to be longer, stronger and better conductors of electricity than copper and many other materials--could ultimately find use in smart fabrics, sensors and a host of other applications. To grow the aligned bundles of tiny tubes, the researchers combined advantages of chemical vapor deposition (CVD), a technique for creating thin coatings that is especially common in the semiconductor industry, with a novel substrate and catalyst onto which the carbon attaches. (EurkAlert 5.10.07) http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/nsf-tlc051007.php
Nanoscale pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics. Pasta tastes like pasta - with or without a spiral. But when you jump to the nanoscale, everything changes: carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties than their non-spiraling cousins. Engineers at UC San Diego, and Clemson
University are studying these differences in the hopes of creating new kinds of components for nanoscale electronics. (physorg 5.18.07) http://www.physorg.com/news98713032.html
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Foresight Nanotech Weekly News Digest: May 16, 2007
Health: Nanotechnology offers chemotherapy relief
Information technology: Electron microscope makes tiny devices
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Conference –10th Annual NSTI Nanotech Conference and Trade Show
Research: Magnetic sensors to study biomolecules – video
Research: DNA sieve – Nanoscale pores can be tiny analysis labs
News: Legal implications of the nanotechnology patent land rush
Editor's Pick: Secrets of carbon nanotube formation revealed – video
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Recent activities of the Nanoforum project
 Identifying Nanotechnology related Skills and Training Needs for EU Industry
 Nanotechnology in Europe - Ensuring the EU Competes Effectively on the World
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News from the European Commission
 Potocnik outlines balanced approach to developing nanotechnology
 The brochure:"Nanotechnology: Innovation for tomorrow's world" is now
 available in Finnish, Polish and Danish
 Open Consultation on the Strategy on communication outreach in nanotechnology
U.S. and EU propose to increase nanotechnology cooperation
 Public consultation on SCENIHR
Important news from Europe
 NanoforumEULA releases preliminary programme workshop and fact finding mission
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Food nanotechnology and public acceptance
 New centre at York gives glimpse of sub-Angstrom world
EU funds nano packaging research
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NANOFORUMEULA extends deadline Call for Research Visit Grants
 IEEE Completes Standards Roadmap for Emerging Nanoelectronic Applications
Russia to invest $1B in nanotechnology
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USNM - Utrecht Summer School in NanoMaterials
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 Acta Materialia Gold Medal Workshop Perspectives of nanoscience and nanotechnology
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 Nanoparticles for European Industry II – Measurement, Characterisation and
Standardisation; Manufacturing Scale-up and Processing; Regulations and
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