Sharing Nanotechnology Knowledge

• Market Watch 2006
  In 2006, Nano is Not Just “Small” – It’s Multi-Functional: Insights from One Commercialization Firm’s Playbook
  NWN Exclusive - By Vance McCarthy and Jennifer Rocha
• Key Players in the Mobile Phone Market Look to Nanotechnology to Keep Them Ahead of Competitors
• Bayer MaterialScience AG Has Created High-Quality, Low Cost Carbon Nanotubes Ready for the Market

• Targeted Drug Delivery For Cancer Using Nanoparticles Has Been Achieved by Researchers at Harvard University and MIT
  NWN Interview Brief With Dr. Omid Farokhzad, Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Robert Langer, MIT
• Maker of Advanced Skin Care Products Cite Nanotechnology As Key to Success
  NWN Interview Brief with Paul C. Ferron of Beyond Skin Science
• Feasibility of Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery to the Inner Ear
  K. Dormer et al., NanoBioMagnetics, Inc.

• U.S. Federal Government Considers Regulation of Quantum Computers
• Intel Plans to “Re-Open” Wafer Fab for New Focus on 300-mm, 65-nm Chips
• Advance Micro Devices (AMD) Expands Semiconductor Technology Alliance with IBM
• NEC Electronics and Toshiba Announce Plan to Collaborate on Development of 45-nm System for Fundamental CMOS Process Technology
• Novel Nonvolatile Logic Circuits with Three-Dimensionally Stacked Nanoscale Memory Device
  K. Abe et al., Toshiba Corporation

• Latest Breakthrough from PolyFuel, Inc. Enables Portable Fuel Cell to Pass 5,000-Hour Lifetime Mark
  NWN Interview Brief with Jim Balcom of PolyFuel, Inc.
• BASF to Increase R&D Spending By 18% in 2006; Nanotechnology is Targeted As One of Company’s Growth Clusters
• University Consortium To Receive Multi-Millions from Federal Government To Improve Solar Cell Efficiency
• After Canceling IPO Plans Last Year, Nanosys Raises $40 Million in Private Equity Financing
• Diamond Growth on an Array of Seeds: The Revolution of Diamond Production
  J.C-M Sung and M-F Tai, Kinik Company

• Stanford University Research Team Designs New Microscope That Can Track Motion of a Single Protein With Atomic Level Precision
• FEI Company Installs World’s Most Powerful S/TEM Microscope at The Ohio State University
• Atomic Force Microscope As a Tool for Nanometer Scale Surface Patterning
  S. Lemeshko et al., Nanotechnology Instruments Europe B. V.