National Nanotechnology Initiatives

Welcome to National Nanotechnology Initiatives.  In recent years, we are seeing that nations around the globe are funding nanotechnology programs in record amounts.

All across the globe, nations are pouring large amounts of money into nanotechnology research and development.  At stake is both benefits and perils.  The benefits of developing advanced nanotechnology is that the country will be able to clean its waterways and its soil, will be able to enhance its products into longer lasting and lighter, will be able to provide cheap fuel, etc.  The perils come in the form of advanced weapons which are much, much more powerful than the atomic weapons that ended World War II and endured throughout the Cold War era.
Close to home, the National Nanotechnology Initiative is the federal nanoscale science, engineering, and technology research and development program for the United States.  The American initiative has four goals…

1) To maintain a world-class research and development (R&D) program;
2) To facilitate technology transfer;
3) To develop educational resources, a skilled workforce, and supporting research infrastructure and tools; and
4) To support responsible development of nanotechnology.

Thanks for visiting www.NationalNanotechnologyInitiatives.com.    :-)            :-)    National Nanotechnology Initiatives is a look at nanotechnology initiatives from nation states, mostly the United States. We are compiling a National Nanotechnology Initiatives Report, however, which covers around a dozen national government initiatives. We also have uncovered nanotechnology videos, nanotechnology articles, and everyday conversations about nanotechnology in general.

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Nanotechnology – Revolution in the Field of Medicine

In the recent years, there has been a tremendous development in the field of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is a field of applied science, which deals in building machines and bots at microscopic levels. Due to development in nanotechnology, there have been many developments in various fields of science, especially in the field of medicine.

With the help of nanotechnology, carrying out a complex heart surgery is very much possible. Doctors have started making use of nanobots to cure certain diseases. These nanobots also help in rectifying certain disorders in the human body.

Nanotechnology in Drug Development:

Recently, scientists are developing effective and better drug delivery systems using nanotechnology. Scientists are using nanoparticles to design a drug delivery system that may improve the pharmaceutical and therapeutic properties of a drug and help better processes such as Drug screening. Nanaoparticles have remarkable properties that drastically enhance the drug delivery. Due to their microscopic sizes, nanoparticles get an easy access in the cells.

There are numerous developments in the drug delivery owing to nanotechnology. One such development using nanotechnology is the transfer of drugs into the cytoplasm of cells through the cell membrane. This is an important development, because to hinder certain diseases from the body, the drug needs to enter the cell membrane.

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Nanotechnology and photovoltaics

There’s only one source of renewable energy that can provide all of the world’s needs and that’s the Sun. In fact, enough sunlight falls on the Earth’s surface in just a couple of hours each day to meet the whole world’s energy needs for one year. The question is: how can we effectively and economically harness this solar energy, without mass-producing very expensive conventional solar cells, which would ultimately require vast tracts of land in order to do their job? Nanotechnology could provide the answer in the form of a new kind of solar cell, one which would be relatively inexpensive to manufacture and highly flexible in design. In fact, you maybe surprised as to just how flexible these cells might be! Find out more by watching this movie. This is one of a selection of intriguing movies which are available for free download from the EPSRC Nanotechnology Image Library at : www.nanoscience.dept.shef.ac.uk You may also be interested in navigating to the “Soft Machines” site belonging to Professor Richard Jones – who features in this movie – for up-to-date discourse on all things nano.

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Nanotechnology for Alternative Energy Sources



An introduction to the study of alternative energy sources. Researches use ground-breaking atomic imaging techniques to view hydrogen atoms moving on a specialized surface.

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