In this issue:
- Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges:
Clean Energy: Cool nanotechnology can save energy
Clean Water: Nanotechnology and the water market at NSTI
Health: Liposome researchers seek to stop bird flu before it takes
flight
Agriculture: Nanonutrients' promise: vast gains in human health
Information technology: IBM builds IC around nanotube molecule
Space: Keynote - Breakthrough for broadband in space
- Enjoy Reading? Become a member of Foresight
- Nanotech Events & News
- Editor's Pick
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FORESIGHT NANOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES
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Foresight has articulated six critical challenges that humanity faces
which can be addressed by nanotechnology. In the Weekly News Digest we identify
news items, research breakthroughs, and events citing current research
and applications providing the stepping stones to solutions to these
challenges:
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1. Meeting global energy needs with clean solutions
Foresight note: This "nanofluid" research is an excellent example of
the same research having several cross over applications.
Headline: Cool nanotechnology can save energy
News source: Physorg.com
Huge reductions in heating bills, safer surgery and the next generation
of miniaturized computers are among the potential benefits of new
nanotechnology developed at Leeds.
By suspending nanoparticles in water or other liquids, Professor
Richard Williams and Dr Yulong Ding have created 'nanofluids' which can
transfer heat up to 400% faster than other liquids. In a central heating system,
nanofluids could increase efficiency without the need to use a more
powerful pump, so saving energy and providing major environmental benefits.
www.physorg.com/news12190.html
Richard Williams
www.pace.leeds.ac.uk/researc...liam.htm
Yulong Ding
www.leeds.ac.uk/chemeng/ST...g/ding.html
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2. Providing abundant clean water globally
Foresight note: Environment & Society is a seminar track at NSTI's Nano
2006. A presentation within this track includes a session on water &
nanotechnology.
Headline: Nanotechnology and the water market: applications and health effects
Presented by F.S. Mowat and J. Tsuji from Exponent
News source: NSTI Website
"Nanotechnology and the water market: applications and health effects"
is one of the many presentations that will be given at Nano 2006. Sponsored by
NSTI (Nano Science and Technology Institute) Nano 2006 will be held on
May 7-11, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. This conference features over
eight hundred technology presentations, government program reviews, an
expanded vertical industry symposium and an early stage company
showcase.
www.nsti.org/Nanotech2006/
Link to presentation:
www.nsti.org/Nanotech200...bstract.html
Exponent
www.exponent.com/home.html
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3. Increasing the health and longevity of human life
Foresight note: This article is a good example of how nanoscience
research being conducted at several institutions can result in solving a major
problem facing humanity.
Headline: Liposome researchers seek to stop bird flu before it takes
flight
News source: Small Times by John Carroll
A small band of researchers scattered around the country from East
Tennessee State University to Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital are about to
test a new, nanotech approach to heading off a potential bird flu pandemic.
The scientists are developing liposomes, fatty globules used as a tiny
drug delivery device, which contain a mix of antioxidants and anti-viral
drugs. The researchers believe that these liposomes, which can be reduced to a
size as small as 25 to 50 nanometers, can cripple the lethal chain reaction
that allows a virus to replicate, saving the patient.
By delivering a mix of a typical anti-viral agent along with
antioxidants, "you are able to decrease the viral replication ... of the cell," says
Milton Smith, president of Amaox.
www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm
Case study about Amaox collaboration:
www.mindjet.com/pdf/us/cas...maox_US.pdf
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4. Maximizing the productivity of agriculture
Foresight note: This article discusses nanotechnology, nutraceuticals
and functional foods.
Headline: Nanonutrients' Promise: Vast Gains In Human Health
News source: Physorg.com
The emerging discipline of nanotechnology holds the promise of
improving functional foods and the capability of delivering healthful food
compounds to the body where it can utilize them best. This is according to the
latest issue of
Food Technology magazine.
Remarkable achievements in nanotechnology--the science, engineering and
technology of controlling matter one-billionth a meter in size--show
great potential for positively influencing human health, the article states.
By enhancing solubility, improving bioavailability, and facilitating the
controlled release and protecting the stability of micronutrients in food
products, nanotechnology could be a successful method to design smart food
systems able to target specific systems within the body and their functions.
www.physorg.com/news62779083.html
Link to Food Technology article
by Hongda Chen, Jochen Weiss, and Fereidoon Shahid
members.ift.org/NR/rdonlyr...306nano.pdf
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5. Making powerful information technology available everywhere
Foresight note: Here is a breakthrough announcement from IBM about an
integrated circuit designed around a single carbon nanotube molecule.
Headline: IBM builds IC around nanotube molecule
News source: Photonics.com
IBM announced this week that its researchers have built the first
complete electronic integrated circuit (IC) around a single carbon nanotube
molecule, a new material that shows promise for providing enhanced performance over
today's standard silicon semiconductors.
IBM said the achievement is significant because the circuit was built
using standard semiconductor processes and used a single molecule as the base
for all components in the circuit, rather than linking together
individually constructed components. This can simplify manufacturing and provide the
consistency needed to more thoroughly test and adjust the material for
use in these applications, the company said in a statement.
"Carbon nanotube transistors have the potential to outperform
state-of-the-art silicon devices," said T.C. Chen, vice president, Science & Technology,
IBM Research. "However, scientists have focused so far on fabricating and
optimizing individual carbon nanotube transistors. Now, we can evaluate
the potential of carbon nanotube electronics in complete circuits -- a
critical step toward the integration of the technology with existing chip-making
techniques."
www.photonics.com/todayshea...rticle.asp
IBM press release
domino.research.ibm.com/comm/p...be.html
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6. Enabling the development of space
Foresight note: Nanotechnology is being employed to create a light
detector that will speed Earth to space communication.
Headline: Breakthrough for broadband in space.
News source: UPI Technology Correspondent By Stokely Baksh
Broadband might be entering into space, thanks to a collective team of
MIT researchers developing a tiny light detector that could help speed up
data transmission from planetary probes to Earth.
This is just the latest breakthrough on the nanotechnology front, which
could keep costs low in one aspect of space communication.
"Half the battle is getting the probe up in space, but getting
information back quickly and not limited is also important -- the reason for the probe
to go up there in the first place," said Karl Berggren, assistant professor in
the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
www.wpherald.com/storyview.php
MIT press release:
web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2...nanowire.html
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If you attend or use any of our partners' events or services, please
tell them you heard about it from Foresight Nanotech Institute.
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April 25-26, 2006 - Carbon Nanotubes
Organized by Intertech-Pira
Belgium, Brussels
Carbon nanotubes are poised to take the world by storm! This tiny
technology has the potential to revolutionize strength and light weighing across a
multitude of different materials, making it suitable for applications
as widespread as aeronautics and packaging. Attend this groundbreaking
event to find out where this burgeoning technology is heading and what
opportunities it could offer your business.
www.piranet.com
Downloadable brochure for this event:
www.piranet.com/pira/piranet.asp
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BECOME A MEMBER OF FORESIGHT:
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If you enjoy reading this news digest, then please consider becoming a
member. Your support is critical to our success in advancing nanotechnology
that is healthy for people and good for the planet.
We have membership levels suitable for everyone.
List of member benefits:
foresight.org/members/index.html
Please support Foresight if you truly support and have interest in nanotechnology. I would also encourage all to sign up for the weekly e-newsletter, and become a member after you realize the importance of the organization.
Peace
- Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges:
Clean Energy: Cool nanotechnology can save energy
Clean Water: Nanotechnology and the water market at NSTI
Health: Liposome researchers seek to stop bird flu before it takes
flight
Agriculture: Nanonutrients' promise: vast gains in human health
Information technology: IBM builds IC around nanotube molecule
Space: Keynote - Breakthrough for broadband in space
- Enjoy Reading? Become a member of Foresight
- Nanotech Events & News
- Editor's Pick
---------------------------------------------------------------------
FORESIGHT NANOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Foresight has articulated six critical challenges that humanity faces
which can be addressed by nanotechnology. In the Weekly News Digest we identify
news items, research breakthroughs, and events citing current research
and applications providing the stepping stones to solutions to these
challenges:
-----------------------
1. Meeting global energy needs with clean solutions
Foresight note: This "nanofluid" research is an excellent example of
the same research having several cross over applications.
Headline: Cool nanotechnology can save energy
News source: Physorg.com
Huge reductions in heating bills, safer surgery and the next generation
of miniaturized computers are among the potential benefits of new
nanotechnology developed at Leeds.
By suspending nanoparticles in water or other liquids, Professor
Richard Williams and Dr Yulong Ding have created 'nanofluids' which can
transfer heat up to 400% faster than other liquids. In a central heating system,
nanofluids could increase efficiency without the need to use a more
powerful pump, so saving energy and providing major environmental benefits.
www.physorg.com/news12190.html
Richard Williams
www.pace.leeds.ac.uk/researc...liam.htm
Yulong Ding
www.leeds.ac.uk/chemeng/ST...g/ding.html
-----------------------
2. Providing abundant clean water globally
Foresight note: Environment & Society is a seminar track at NSTI's Nano
2006. A presentation within this track includes a session on water &
nanotechnology.
Headline: Nanotechnology and the water market: applications and health effects
Presented by F.S. Mowat and J. Tsuji from Exponent
News source: NSTI Website
"Nanotechnology and the water market: applications and health effects"
is one of the many presentations that will be given at Nano 2006. Sponsored by
NSTI (Nano Science and Technology Institute) Nano 2006 will be held on
May 7-11, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. This conference features over
eight hundred technology presentations, government program reviews, an
expanded vertical industry symposium and an early stage company
showcase.
www.nsti.org/Nanotech2006/
Link to presentation:
www.nsti.org/Nanotech200...bstract.html
Exponent
www.exponent.com/home.html
-----------------------
3. Increasing the health and longevity of human life
Foresight note: This article is a good example of how nanoscience
research being conducted at several institutions can result in solving a major
problem facing humanity.
Headline: Liposome researchers seek to stop bird flu before it takes
flight
News source: Small Times by John Carroll
A small band of researchers scattered around the country from East
Tennessee State University to Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital are about to
test a new, nanotech approach to heading off a potential bird flu pandemic.
The scientists are developing liposomes, fatty globules used as a tiny
drug delivery device, which contain a mix of antioxidants and anti-viral
drugs. The researchers believe that these liposomes, which can be reduced to a
size as small as 25 to 50 nanometers, can cripple the lethal chain reaction
that allows a virus to replicate, saving the patient.
By delivering a mix of a typical anti-viral agent along with
antioxidants, "you are able to decrease the viral replication ... of the cell," says
Milton Smith, president of Amaox.
www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm
Case study about Amaox collaboration:
www.mindjet.com/pdf/us/cas...maox_US.pdf
-----------------------
4. Maximizing the productivity of agriculture
Foresight note: This article discusses nanotechnology, nutraceuticals
and functional foods.
Headline: Nanonutrients' Promise: Vast Gains In Human Health
News source: Physorg.com
The emerging discipline of nanotechnology holds the promise of
improving functional foods and the capability of delivering healthful food
compounds to the body where it can utilize them best. This is according to the
latest issue of
Food Technology magazine.
Remarkable achievements in nanotechnology--the science, engineering and
technology of controlling matter one-billionth a meter in size--show
great potential for positively influencing human health, the article states.
By enhancing solubility, improving bioavailability, and facilitating the
controlled release and protecting the stability of micronutrients in food
products, nanotechnology could be a successful method to design smart food
systems able to target specific systems within the body and their functions.
www.physorg.com/news62779083.html
Link to Food Technology article
by Hongda Chen, Jochen Weiss, and Fereidoon Shahid
members.ift.org/NR/rdonlyr...306nano.pdf
-----------------------
5. Making powerful information technology available everywhere
Foresight note: Here is a breakthrough announcement from IBM about an
integrated circuit designed around a single carbon nanotube molecule.
Headline: IBM builds IC around nanotube molecule
News source: Photonics.com
IBM announced this week that its researchers have built the first
complete electronic integrated circuit (IC) around a single carbon nanotube
molecule, a new material that shows promise for providing enhanced performance over
today's standard silicon semiconductors.
IBM said the achievement is significant because the circuit was built
using standard semiconductor processes and used a single molecule as the base
for all components in the circuit, rather than linking together
individually constructed components. This can simplify manufacturing and provide the
consistency needed to more thoroughly test and adjust the material for
use in these applications, the company said in a statement.
"Carbon nanotube transistors have the potential to outperform
state-of-the-art silicon devices," said T.C. Chen, vice president, Science & Technology,
IBM Research. "However, scientists have focused so far on fabricating and
optimizing individual carbon nanotube transistors. Now, we can evaluate
the potential of carbon nanotube electronics in complete circuits -- a
critical step toward the integration of the technology with existing chip-making
techniques."
www.photonics.com/todayshea...rticle.asp
IBM press release
domino.research.ibm.com/comm/p...be.html
----------------
6. Enabling the development of space
Foresight note: Nanotechnology is being employed to create a light
detector that will speed Earth to space communication.
Headline: Breakthrough for broadband in space.
News source: UPI Technology Correspondent By Stokely Baksh
Broadband might be entering into space, thanks to a collective team of
MIT researchers developing a tiny light detector that could help speed up
data transmission from planetary probes to Earth.
This is just the latest breakthrough on the nanotechnology front, which
could keep costs low in one aspect of space communication.
"Half the battle is getting the probe up in space, but getting
information back quickly and not limited is also important -- the reason for the probe
to go up there in the first place," said Karl Berggren, assistant professor in
the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
www.wpherald.com/storyview.php
MIT press release:
web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2...nanowire.html
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FORESIGHT PARTNERS
---------------------------------------------------------------------
If you attend or use any of our partners' events or services, please
tell them you heard about it from Foresight Nanotech Institute.
-----------------------
April 25-26, 2006 - Carbon Nanotubes
Organized by Intertech-Pira
Belgium, Brussels
Carbon nanotubes are poised to take the world by storm! This tiny
technology has the potential to revolutionize strength and light weighing across a
multitude of different materials, making it suitable for applications
as widespread as aeronautics and packaging. Attend this groundbreaking
event to find out where this burgeoning technology is heading and what
opportunities it could offer your business.
www.piranet.com
Downloadable brochure for this event:
www.piranet.com/pira/piranet.asp
---------------------------------------------------------------------
BECOME A MEMBER OF FORESIGHT:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
If you enjoy reading this news digest, then please consider becoming a
member. Your support is critical to our success in advancing nanotechnology
that is healthy for people and good for the planet.
We have membership levels suitable for everyone.
List of member benefits:
foresight.org/members/index.html
Please support Foresight if you truly support and have interest in nanotechnology. I would also encourage all to sign up for the weekly e-newsletter, and become a member after you realize the importance of the organization.
Peace
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