Missing Shades of Grue

1. DNA origami, at Caltech
2. Nanomagnets to clean up drinking water, at Rice
3. Arrays connect nanowire transistors with neurons, at Harvard
4. Single nanotube electrical circuits, at IBM Watson, U. Florida, and Columbia
5. Nanoparticles destroy prostate cancer, at MIT, BWH, Harvard, U. Illinois, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (S. Korea), and Dana Farber Cancer Institute

"This experimental 45-nanometer tri-gate transistor from Intel can pass more electrons from the source to the drain, thereby resulting in faster chips that leak less electricity."

Intelligent coatings represent the future of the coatings industry. Industrial Nanotech plans to emerge at the forefront of this new and disruptive technology which has the ability to potentially generate a substantial revenue stream for the company. Our current Nansulate line of protective coatings represents the first revolutionary improvement in coatings in decades and our Nansulate IQ line will provide an even higher level of effectiveness and become the future of coatings. Almost every object that is painted including houses, bridges, cars, trucks, tractors, manufacturing equipment and pipelines can eventually benefit from this advanced technology.

It's not the experts telling us what we should do and how we should live, but it's the citizens themselves querying the experts: how is it that you intend to help us live the way we want to live?

"Jim Hurd is the Founder and Director of the NanoScience Exchange, which was founded in early 2002. The organization examines key business and policy issues that affect venture-backed nanotechnology-related start-ups. The NanoScience Exchange hosts regular events in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. on topics such as "Applications to Combat Biogical and Chemical Weapons", "Renewable Energy Applications Changing the U.S. Landscape", "Navigating the Funding Maze in Washington, D.C.", and "Nano Materials: Real Revenues Today and Impact on the U.S. Economy".

On February 17, 2006, in Washington, D.C., the NanoScience Exchange presented "Nanotech Patents and Environmental Policy: A Threat to Economic Viability of Nanotech Companies?"

Mr. Hurd also heads the consulting firm, Molecular Business, located in San Francisco, which since December 2001 has assisted leading nanotechnology start-ups in building strategic alliances with major corporations and in putting together rounds of investment. He works with Natural Nano and other companies on developing key strategic relationships and increasing company visibility.

Mr. Hurd worked with the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 2005 on an EPA-related project. He authored a chapter, "Converging Technologies in Developing Countries" for a National Science Foundation book released in Fall 2005."

UK scientists from Norwich have used a plant virus to create nanotechnology building blocks.

The virus, which infects black-eyed peas, was employed as a "scaffold" on to which other chemicals were attached.

By linking iron-containing compounds to the virus's surface, the John Innes Centre team was able to create electronically active nanoparticles.

The researchers tell the journal Small that their work could be used in the future to make tiny electrical devices.

... After isolating a virus particle from the peas, the researchers then bound ferrocene compounds to amino acids on its surface.

The team managed to attach approximately 240 of the organometallic compounds, each containing an electronically active iron atom.

The addition of these compounds meant the nanoparticle became like a molecular capacitor - a device that could store electronic charge, explained Dr Evans.

After further development, this could lead to the particles being used in biosensors, nanoelectronic devices, or for electrocatalytic processes. ...

University of Texas at Dallas nanotechnologists have made alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles, able to do 100 times greater work per cycle and produce, at reduced strengths, larger contractions than natural muscles. Among other possibilities, these muscles could enable fuel-powered artificial limbs, "smart skins" and morphing structures for air and marine vehicles, autonomous robots having very long mission capabilities and smart sensors that detect and self-actuate to change the environment.