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The method is based on the atomic force microscope (AFM), an instrument invented by an IBM Nobel Laureate 20 years ago that performs nanoscale operations using a tiny cantilever with a cone-shaped tip at its end. When an electrical field is applied to the tip, molecules will slide up or down its surface at characteristic speeds. By modifying the tip's surface and varying the strength and duration of the electric field, different molecular species can be separated from each other within a few milliseconds, more than 1,000 times faster than today's methods.
IBM Researchers Demonstrate New Method for Rapid Molecule Sortin
10 Emerging Technologies
This year, as every year, we present our list of the 10 technologies we find most exciting—and most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live. The list comprises projects in a broad range of fields.
Nano Engineering Simulations
From the Nanorex online gallery : This worm drive assembly designed by K. Eric Drexler, Josh Hall, Ninad Sathaye and Mark Sims includes 11 components totalling 25,374 atoms. The animations below have been created from simulation results using NanoEngineer-1 Alpha 7, taking just over 370 hours to complete on a Dell laptop running WindowsXP. It is the largest model ever simulated with NanoEngineer-1. More information about this model is coming soon.Rest assured, the periodic table of elements' claim on front-and-center wall space in thousands of classrooms and laboratories around the world is safe. But some enthusiasts in the nanoscience arena liken the minuscule particles they are making—and mixing and matching like atoms—to the elements of a new periodic table: a periodic table of nanoparticles. Even if this nascent nanoparticle table contains only a smidgen of the explanatory and predictive power of the traditional table of elements, it could prove to be invaluable.
A Periodic Table Of Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology at Zyvex
Innovation of Precision Zyvex Labs designs, constructs, and commercializes the world's most precise manufactured products. Zyvex Labs is the Founder and Manager of the Atomically Precise Manufacturing Consortium.
Design of a Primitive Nanofactory Journal of Evolution and Technology - Vol. 13 - October 2003 - PDF Version
Nanofactory Design
Nanomateriaux
L’étude réalisée en 2004 par la Digitip sur les nanomatériaux en France a fait ressortir le besoin de mailler les acteurs et d'intégrer les compétences amont-aval pour mieux comprendre les besoins non satisfaits de l'industrie et mieux connaître les larges possibilités qu'offrent ces nouveaux matériaux. Cette base de données permettra aux professionnels des nanomatériaux d’identifier des partenaires potentiels. Elle comporte des acteurs de la recherche, des centres de formation, des industriels, des organismes de soutien publics et privés.
Réseau de recherche en Micro et Nano Technologies
Suite à la décision interministérielle, toutes les Unités Supports de l’ANR devront transférer leurs activités afin de permettre à l’ANR de gérer l’ensemble de ses appels à projets en interne. En conséquence, la Délégation ANR/PNANO du CEA Grenoble cessera à compter du 31/12/2010 d’assurer le suivi administratif, financier et technique de tous les projets. A cette date, toutes les correspondances et demandes devront être directement adressées à l’attention de Mr Didier THERON, par mail à l’adresse générique suivante nano@agencerecherche.fr , ou par courrier à l’adresse suivante : Afin que la transition se passe au mieux, la Délégation ANR/PNANO transmettra le dossier mentionné ci-dessus à l’ANR et restera à votre disposition pour tous renseignements complémentaires jusqu’au 31 mars 2011.Avec le projet européen SPrinTronics, labellisé Minalogic et doté de 7 millions d’euros, la start-up Ceradrop (basée à MINATEC) compte activer l’industrialisation de l’impression jet d’encre de composants électroniques à haute valeur ajoutée. Il existe en effet de multiples travaux de R&D, mais pas de technologies validées. Et Ceradrop, très en pointe en électronique imprimée, souhaite prendre une place de choix sur ce marché porteur.
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nanotechnology
E-drexler.com explores a line of technological development that begins with current laboratory capabilities for molecular engineering and extends along an incremental path toward the transformative technologies of high-throughput atomically precise manufacturing. This line of development and its objectives are important in areas that range from choices in science education and nanotechnology research to global problems on the largest scales, including the collision of economic development with global resource and environmental constraints. “Revolutionizing the Future of Technology” (on the AAAS EurekAlert website) provides the best brief, general introduction to the concept of productive nanosystems. The best brief introduction to the underlying physical principles is “Productive Nanosystems: the physics of molecular fabrication” [pdf] , from the Institute of Physics journal Physics Education.