Jeff Menaker's List: Nanotechnology

Text of Richard Feynman's 1959 Speech

In 1959, Richard Feynman presented at the American Physical Society.  This transcript shows Feynman's predictions on technological developments and implications of reduction of scale.

National Nanotechnology Initiative.  This website is the Federal Governments portal to nanotechnology initiatives and funding.  It includes background information on nanotechnology and information on seeking funding and collaboration on projects.

Nanotechnology from Discovery.  The opening interactive displays a history of nanotechnology.  The site also has background information and current topics in nanotechnology.

In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they're made of. This accessible, enchanting conversation in physics reveals a teeming nano-world that's just plain fun to imagine.

Nanotechnology Now offers background information, news updates, and career information surrounding Nanotechnology.

A quick overview of Nanotechnology, from concept to application, to society.

This page from American Technion Society lists several key achievements in Nanotechnology.

This page breaks down a list of Nanotechnology Applications into categories of Medicince, Electronics, Food, Fuel, Environment, Sports, and Fabric

Kota Murali, Chief Technologist for Nanotechnology research at IBM presents at TedXNITKSurathkal about commercial applications of nanotechnology.

In this talk, Howard Brown uses the field of fabrics to demonstrate how new scientific discoveries as well as developments in materials and design are enabling businesses to increase resource performance, or do better with less. He cites fabrics used for energy harvesting, others that deliver functionality like waterproofing without added mass, and lightweight fabrics strong enough to hold up bridges. He shows how biomimicry, 3D printing, nanotechnology, and other strategies are being used to increase the functionality of products while decreasing resource use.

Babak Parviz speaks of using nanofabrication to improve medical devices

Sylvain Martel highlights the medical use of nanorobotics for drug delivery in cancer treatment.

This paper from the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University discusses the impact of nanotechnology and methods of readying society for the implementation of new technologies and learnings that may arise from nanotechnology research

This is a PDF of a PPT from the Smalley Institute.  Wade Adams highlights the ways in which nanotechnology is changing the workforce.  He highlights the new careers and opportunities that are developing.

This site highlights potential benefits, dangers, and possibilities for the use of nanotechnology.  CRN aims to support environmental, humanitarian, economic, military, political, social, medical, and ethical discussions of molecular manufacturing to lead to implementation plans.

Wade Evans (Director of the Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University) presents at TedxHouston in 2011.  Wade Evans covers historical and background information plus properties of nanoscale materials and possible applications.

Evolving from an outreach initiative at Immaculata University, nanoTecknowledgy provides educator workshops and resources.  Courses are offered in a blend of laboratory (in person and remote operated equipment) and online.  lesson plans and resources are also available.

This Captivate rendering of a presentation on the history, basic theories, and potential applications for nanotechnology is hosted on Angel Learning (private LMS at Immaculata University).

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.