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NASA BIOsensor Helps Detect Biohazards

This news release from Ames Research Center describes an effort to use nanotechnology (Carbon Nano Tube) based sensors to "detect the presence of common and rare strains of microorganisms associated with water-borne illnesses". The article states...

Published 05-27-2008 9:21 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, Energy, Government, Green IT, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Transportation, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Energy , Green IT, Government , Healthcare , Manufacturing , Transportation , Nanotech

Nano train leaving the station!

NewScientist.com has an article and picture of a nanoscale "monorail" that can move along a nanotube track. It has carried a gold nugget a distance of 0.5 micrometers. The new device developed by researchers in Europe is made from two nanotubes...

Published 04-17-2008 8:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Emerging technologies , Manufacturing , Nanotech

Morphing phone concept based on nanotech

Nokia has unveiled "Morph" a concept phone based on using nanotechnology capabilities (e.g., shape, color changing). Many times when people hear about nanotechnology they wonder what difference it could make for them personally. The concept...

Published 02-27-2008 10:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Communications, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Communications , Emerging technologies , Vision , Nanotech

Another nanotech roadmap

Foresight Nanotech Institute , a leading nanotechnology think tank, and Battelle , a leading global research and development organization, have officially unveiled Productive Nanosystems: A Technology Roadmap . This roadmap is an attempt to map out the...

Published 02-05-2008 11:56 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Vision, Emerging technologies , Manufacturing , Vision , Nanotech

Free government nanotech report

The National Materials Advisory Board has released a congressionally-mandated report on the National Nanotechnology Initiative, covering the current state and future potential of nanotechnology. Among other things, the report examines the possibility...

Published 12-28-2006 11:14 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Nanotech

Follow-up pictures for the UTD nanotech visit

I had some people ask about the nano fiber arrays and what they looked like from my previous entry. Here you go... One for scale: and one to show them being pulled off the block:

Published 06-19-2006 11:09 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Nanotech

Further thoughts on the economy of abundance and nano-technology

Back in October, I had a couple of entries about molecular manufacturing and the age of abundance having implications far beyond the capabilities of mass customization. I've been thinking about the fact that almost the entire semiconductor industry...

Published 02-16-2006 5:17 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Nanotech

Nano-tech lab at UT Dallas

Coming up in February, I have the opportunity to talk with a senior engineering class at Purdue about the future of technology and its implications. As part of this trip, I will get a chance to see their new nano-technology facility , as well as talking...

Published 01-17-2006 1:50 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging technologies , Nanotech

Molecular manufacturing - the single molecule car

A few weeks back, I had an entry about molecular manufacturing and the age of abundance , having implications far beyond the capabilities of mass customization. I just came across this article about a molecular car created at Rice University. This could...

Published 10-27-2005 12:43 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Nanotech

The Long Tail

Recently I wrote a brief series of blog entries about the spectrum from mass customization -> personal fabrication -> nano- manufacturing ending with an entry on economic impact . Since then I've seen a more formal term for this concept - the...

Published 10-04-2005 6:08 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Nanotech

Scarcity vs. abundance (3rd in a series)

Currently, the market price of products are based on scarcity - supply and demand . I was talking with Jeff Wacker (another fellow who contributes to this blog) about nano-manufacturing and he made the point that when we are using layers of atoms, configured...

Published 09-30-2005 6:15 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Manufacturing , Nanotech

Personal fabrication at the nano-technology level (2nd in a series)

Hold your hand up and look at your finger nails. Count to 3. Your fingernails have just grown in length at the level where nano-fabrication works. For some reason, nano-technology discussions involve fingernails!?! In the last entry, I was comparing mass...

Published 09-29-2005 3:21 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Manufacturing , Nanotech

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NASA BIOsensor Helps Detect Biohazards

Nano train leaving the station!

Morphing phone concept based on nanotech

Another nanotech roadmap

Free government nanotech report

Follow-up pictures for the UTD nanotech visit

Further thoughts on the economy of abundance and nano-technology

Nano-tech lab at UT Dallas

Molecular manufacturing - the single molecule car

The Long Tail

Scarcity vs. abundance (3rd in a series)

Personal fabrication at the nano-technology level (2nd in a series)