Quote of the day

"Nanotechnology is a suite of powerful materials synthesis and fabrication technologies that can control structure in the nanometer to 100 nanometer range - precisely the size range where size controls properties. As a technology strategy, nanotechnology will result both in new devices and products based on designer materials and engineered structure, as well as a large number of improvements to existing products and products resulting from the marriage of nanotechnology with currently-used fabrication technologies."

~Dr. Martin Moskovits, Chief Technology Officer API Nanotronics http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=4445

Nanotechnology Predictions

Today I thought I’d hit you with a few of my favorite predictions and statistics. While I do not necessarily agree with them all, I do respect the groups and individuals that produced them, and therefore believe that we need to pay attention to them. When taken as a whole, I believe they indicate that great deal of expedient thought needs to be given the field of nanotechnology. If there is one “for sure” you can take away from this, it is that nanotechnologies have the potential to impact society in ways both profound and unfathomable. The time to start planning for the consequent disruptive change is now.


"This technology (nanotechnology) also holds the promise of broad societal implications. By 2015, products in which nanotechnology plays a key role will require more than 2 million workers and produce about $1 trillion in products annually. These estimates are from leading experts in large companies with related nanotechnology programs in the United States, Japan and Europe."

~Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor, NSF and Chair, U.S. National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060205/OPINION/602050382/1002


"Nanotechnology is approaching a phase change that will see it spread exponentially across manufactured goods in the next 10 years. In 2004, $13 billion worth of products will incorporate emerging nanotechnology, less than one-tenth of 1% of global manufacturing output. In 2014, we project that this figure will rise to $2.6 trillion -- 15% of manufacturing output in that year."

From: Sizing Nanotechnology's Value Chain
http://www.nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=1248


“Energy is the largest business in the world. The growing thirst for fossil-fuel based energy by developing economies in Asia, compounded by political strife in energy-rich areas of the world, has created an unprecedented demand and a volatile supply. Solar energy has long been recognized as a potential solution - 175,000 terawatts of solar energy hit the earth every day, three-thousand times the amount we would need to power the entire world. Nanotechnology is at the forefront of solar cell development from the mechanism from capturing light to the means to convert it into electricity and conduct the power to the devices that need it.”

From: NanoBusiness 2007 to Focus on CleanTech, Highlighting Nanotechnology’s Role in Improving the Environment
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070321005760&newsLang=en


“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.”

From: Demand for nanotech-based medicine grows
http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ONART&C=Bio&ARTICLE_ID=287462&p=109

To view more worthwhile quotes, visit the Quotes page at my consulting team site.

Picture of the day

Infinity (Dust particles)

Image derived from black and white Scanning Electron Microscope images that was digitized and computer painted.

Copyright © Cris Orfescu. (click to see larger version)

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NANOART - Limited edition prints. Nano-dimensional features of different materials are revealed with an electron microscope after samples have been previously prepared. The image is created by electrons (electric charged particles) rather then photons (particles of light) as in photography. The black and white electron microscope image is digitally processed, computer painted and manipulated, and printed with archival inks on fine art archival paper or canvas - contact the artist for details. All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.

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Quote of the day

"The medicine of the future will be preventive in nature. Farewell, therapeutic care. Instead of investing enormous budgets in treating chronic diseases, a routine scan of healthy people will identify the potential for the disease even before it develops. Nanotechnology, molecular imaging and microscopic silicon chips will be the magic wand that eliminates from our lives the three main killers: cancer, heart disease and strokes. Health-care costs will drop dramatically when diseases are eradicated before they appear, and this process will allow funds to be channeled into other areas, leading to economic growth.

Hey docs, your time's almost up."

~Elisha Bar-Meir (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/838380.html)

Nanomedicine at Johns Hopkins

As anyone who has been reading nanotech news for any part of the past few years knows, the impact that nanotechnologies will play on medicine is potentially enormous. Nanotechnologies will play a role in the screening, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease, and will likely be a major contributor to the continued lengthening of the human lifespan as well as the greater enjoyment of those years.

The following is just one of many interviews I did as Editor of Nanotechnology Now on nanomedicine.

Here is an excerpt of my interview with Dr. Peter Searson, director for the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology. He is also a professor in Materials Science and Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering and is Associate Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.


RR: Looking out ten years, what are your hopes regarding medical diagnostics and treatments stemming from our understanding of the nanoscale?

Very simply, we will develop new scientific tools and create new technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and medical conditions. We will develop new tools will allow us to develop a better understanding of how cells function, and misfunction, at the molecular level. Research will also focus on the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, for example, for the early detection and treatment of cancer.


Read the entire interview here:
http://www.nanotech-now.com/products/nanonewsnow/issues/036/036.htm#Searson

New nano and cleantech consulting site

Just a quick note to let know that my nanotechnology consulting community’s new website is up; it hasn’t been “announced” yet, so you folks are the first to see it.

Visit Access: Your Nano and Cleantech Knowledge Management Team

I’ll be spending a lot of time fine-tuning the site over the next week or so, and will try to blog-on during that time. No promises, though.