Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest: June 29, 2005
In this issue:
- Foresight Nanotech Conference – Register now and Save Money – Super Early Registration deadline – Tomorrow, June 30
- Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges – Related news and events
- Spotlight on Foresight Members – Corporate Members – Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
- Foresight Partners
- Nanotech Events & News
Foresight Nanotech Institute News
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Advancing Beneficial Nanotechnology
Focusing on the Cutting Edge
13th Foresight Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology
October 22-27, 2005
San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel
http://www.foresight.org/conference2005/index.html
Customize your conference experience – Choose the days and sessions that provide the kind of nanotechnology information and contacts you seek. Foresight Nanotech Institute offers an "a la carte" conference so you can select the days that are most valuable to you. Or attend all six days and receive a comprehensive overview: from Vision, through current Applications and Policies, to Research on the cutting edge of advanced nanotechnology.
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Academic, Non-profit, Government, and Participating Members
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Corporate Individual
attend for $595, registration fee increases to $695 after June 30, 2005
Students
attend for $175, registration fee increases to $195 after June 30, 2005
One-day option
attend for $175, registration fee increases to $225 after June 30, 2005
Two-day option
attend for $375, registration fee increases to $425 after June 30, 2005
Conference Speakers and Updated Program
We have added new speakers since our last email. Follow this link to our conference website to view the program, speakers list and to download the brochure:
http://www.foresight.org/conference2005/index.html
Program Highlights
Applications & Policy – October 24-25, 2005
Maximizing value from the National Nanotechnology Initiative, Tom Kalil, UC Berkeley
Nanotechnology Investment today, Charles Harris, Harris & Harris
Intellectual property in nanotech: problems and solutions, Mark Lemley, Stanford University, School of Law
Research – October 26-27, 2005
Nanotech research in Japan, Hiroshi Yokoyama, AIST, Japan
Prediction of structure and properties on the nanoscale, William Goddard, Caltech
http://www.foresight.org/conference2005/index.html
Other Important Deadlines
Abstract Deadline – June 30, 2005
To submit an abstract, please follow this link:
https://www.foresight.org/forms/php/abstract.php?Event_ID=44
Prize Deadlines – July 15, 2005
Foresight has added a Government Prize this year.
http://www.foresight.org/about/fi_spons.html
Sponsorship Opportunities
Give your firm prominence within the nanotechnology community
by becoming a conference sponsor.
To become a sponsor follow this link:
http://www.foresight.org/conference2005/index.html
Lectures - Foresight Nanotech Institute
National Youth Leadership Forum On Nanotechnology
Sponsored by the National Youth Leadership Forum
June 30, 2005
San Jose, California
Scott Mize will speak about The Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges and Christine Peterson will lead a two-hour workshop on nanotechnology at this prestigious high school forum, which brings outstanding youths together to envision and explore the future of technology.
http://www.nylf.org/tech/index.cfm
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
Department of Energy grants fund work on new hydrogen fuel technologies at UCSC
News source: University of California Santa Cruz
Nanotechnology may hold the key to developing a viable hydrogen economy, according to Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Zhang will receive $535,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for his part in two research projects aimed at developing new technologies for the production and storage of hydrogen fuel using nanostructured materials.
UCSC press release
Dr. Jim Zhang
2. Providing abundant clean water globally
Nuclear Solutions Files International Patent Application for New Tritiated Water Clean-Up Process
News source: Prime Zone Media Network
Nuclear Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB:NSOL) announced today that it filed the first international patent application for a new patent-pending process to remediate tritiated water.
Previously the company reported that it received clearance by the U.S. government for foreign filing of this first patent after an extensive level-three national security review.
"I am ecstatic to report that we recently filed this new international patent application after receiving clearance from the U.S. government to do so," said, Patrick Herda, CEO of Nuclear Solutions. "The patent application we filed under the auspices of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), allows us to simultaneously seek intellectual property protection in over one hundred countries throughout the world.
Source
Nuclear Solutions
3. Increasing the health and longevity of human life
New firm targets nanoparticles for drug delivery
News source: in-Pharma Technologist.com
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US, have developed a method of creating what they claim are the world's smallest manufactured particles for delivering drugs and other organic materials into the human body.
The researchers adapted technology invented by the electronics industry in fabricating transistors to create particles for carrying genetic material, pharmaceuticals and other compounds of unprecedented small size and uniformity, which measure only a hundred nanometers or so in diameter.
"Billions of dollars are being spent now on nanotechnology and nanoparticles, but 99 per cent of the materials people are focusing on are metals and metal oxides, which are inorganic," noted the team's leader, Joseph De Simone.
Source
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joseph M. DeSimone
4. Maximizing the productivity of agriculture
Better Eating Through Nanotech
News source: ExtremeNano by Mark Hachman
Major food producers are using nanotechnology to improve the quality of their foods, although some warn that consumers may misunderstand the technology.
Source
5. Making powerful information technology available everywhere
Microbes pave way for 'nanowires' - Scientists promise organically-based nanotech applications
News source: vnunet.com by Robert Jaques
US scientists have discovered a process by which micro-organisms create tiny biological structures that are highly electrically conductive, paving the way for organically-based nanotechnology applications.
According to researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the conductive structures, known as "microbial nanowires", are produced by a micro-organism known as Geobacter.
Microbiologist Derek R. Lovley who lead the research team that found nanowires, explained that the microbes' structures are only 3-5 nanometres in width (20,000 times finer than a human hair) but quite durable and more than a thousand times as long as they are wide.
"Such long thin conductive structures are unprecedented in biology," said Lovley. "This completely changes our concept of how micro-organisms can handle electrons, and it also seems likely that microbial nanowires could be useful materials for the development of extremely small electronic devices."
Source
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Derek Lovley
6. Enabling the development of space
Government of Canada Invests in Aerospace Nanotechnology
News source: CCN Mathews
The Honourable Roy Cullen, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, and Member of Parliament for Etobicoke North, on behalf of the Honourable David L. Emerson, Minister of Industry, today announced a $3.4 million investment in the development of new nanotechnology-based coatings for the aerospace industry which will advance more environmentally sound technologies.
"This initiative is advancing a technology with the potential to deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits across a range of industries," said Minister Emerson.
Source
David L. Emerson, Minister of Industry
Spotlight On Foresight Members
Foresight Nanotech Institute has updated its membership levels and added benefits. One of the new levels is the corporate membership. This week’s spotlight is on Foresight corporate member Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin.
Corporate Member – Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
"Howard Rice is a 145-attorney firm that has been actively pursuing the practical applications of nanotechnology for over seven years. The firm has also consistently supported the Foresight Nanotech Institute as a vital factor in the nano field. Among areas of expertise that Howard Rice brings to this evolving industry are venture capital, intellectual property (patent, copyright, trade secrets and licensing) and start-up enterprises. We represent companies involved with particle size analysis, high-density memory, nano funding and government research policy."
http://www.howardrice.com
Foresight Nanotech Institute offers membership levels appropriate to meet the needs and interests of individuals and companies. To find out more about membership follow this link:
http://www.foresight.org/members/index.html
Foresight Partners
If you attend or use any of our media partners’ events or services, please tell them you heard about it from Foresight Nanotech Institute.
August 13-16, 2005 – Seeing at the Nanoscale III
Sponsored by California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Veeco Instruments
Santa Barbara, California
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Veeco Instruments are sponsoring a scientific conference focusing on nanostructural imaging, characterization, and modification using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and related techniques.
The overall purpose of the conference is to provide an optimum forum for "scientists to speak to scientists" on a wide variety of cutting-edge nanotechnology topics. Follow this link to the conference:
http://www.veeco.com/nanoconference/
tinytechjobs – tiny technology. Big Opportunities
tinytechjobs is a unique career website devoted to jobs at the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology. On the site you will find both academic and industrial positions in such disciplines as chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, micro- and nano-electromechanical engineering, biomedical engineering and devices, microfluidics, microarrays, information technology, optics, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering, and other relevant fields.
http://www.tinytechjobs.com/index.html
EmTech Research – a division of Small Times Media
The most highly regarded provider of business information about micro and nanotechnology, EmTech Research is a division of Small Times Media. EmTech Research provides timely and accurate market reports about emerging technologies including nanotechnology, MEMS and microtechnology. Custom market research services are also available.
http://www.EmTechResearch.com
Nanotech Events & News
Technology could grow beyond human control, warns Millennium report
News Source: nanotechwire.com
Many people still do not appreciate how fast science and technology will change over the next 25 years, and given this rapid development along several different fronts, the possibility of technology growing beyond human control must now be taken seriously, according to a new report.
The State of the Future 2005 report is produced by the United Nations University's Millennium Project - a global think tank of foresight experts, academics and policy makers. It analyzes current global trends and examines in detail some of the current and future challenges the world (or humanity) facing.
Setting the scene, the report states: 'Future synergies among nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science can dramatically improve the human condition by increasing the availability of food, energy and water and by connecting people and information anywhere. The effect will be to increase collective intelligence and create value and efficiency while lowering costs.'
However, it warns that 'a previous and troubling finding from the Millennium Project still remains unsolved: although it is increasingly clear that humanity has the resources to address its global challenges, unfortunately it is not increasingly clear how much wisdom, goodwill and intelligence will be applied to these challenges.'
http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=2083
State of the Future by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon
http://www.acunu.org/millennium/sof2004.html
July 11-15, 2005 - 5th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology
Nagoya, Japan
Sponsored by IEEE Nanotechnology Council
http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/IEEE-NANO/IEEE-NANO-2005/
August 1-6, 2005 – 12th International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering
Tenerife, Spain
Sponsored by ICCE
http://www.acad.polyu.edu.hk/~mmktlau/ICCE/ICCE_Main.htm
September 15, 2005 - The Nanotechnology-Biology Interface: Exploring Models for Oversight
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Hosted by The Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy
This conference is free and open to the public.
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/stpp/nanotechnology.html
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