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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Nanogirl News</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>June 28, 2004</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kerry pitches $30 billion tech investment...Kerry
also said he would increase funding for the National Science Foundation, NASA,
National Institutes of Health, Energy Department, and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, and devote more of defense R&D budgets to
long-term research. Those funding increases could spur advances in
manufacturing, nanotechnology, life sciences, clean energy, and IT research to
make systems more dependable, reliable, and resistant to cyber-attacks. (EETimes
6/25/04) <A
href="http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22102204">http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22102204</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanoshells Burn Up Cancer in Animals Effectively
destroy tumors in mice while leaving healthy tissue unharmed. A cancer treatment
that uses a combination of gold nanoshells and near-infrared light to burn
tumors while sparing healthy tissue has proven effective in mice. The approach,
being developed by researcher Jennifer West and colleagues at Rice University in
Houston, Texas, could be a minimally invasive treatment for tumors in humans.
(BetterHumans 6/22/04)<BR><A
href="http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-06-22-3">http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-06-22-3</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanomedicine Roadmap Initiative. On May 4, 2004,
the National Institutes of Health held a meeting to launch the Nanomedicine
Roadmap Initiative, which will be a part of the overall NIH Roadmap. For more
information, please visit Nanomedicine Roadmap Initiative: (NIH Roadmap) <A
href="http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/nanomedicine/index.asp">http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/nanomedicine/index.asp</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Vanderbilt Engineering to lead new defense
nanotechnology program. The Vanderbilt School of Engineering will lead a new
$2.4 million multi-institutional nanotechnology program funded by the U.S. Army
Research Laboratory to develop radically improved electronics, sensors,
energy-conversion devices and other critical defense systems. The Advanced
Carbon Nanotechnology Research Program will explore various nanostructures of
carbon, including diamond, at the molecular level to develop next-generation
materials that can be used in a wide range of defense devices and systems. The
Army Research Laboratory funds will support the program’s first year of
operation. (Vanderbilt News Service 6/24/04) <A
href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=12731">http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=12731</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dancing lasers levitate carbon nanotubes. For the
first time, carbon nanotubes have been picked up and moved with a laser beam.
The trick may finally offer engineers who want to build microchips based on
nanotube components a way to move the diminutive devices into place...The
technique exploits the ability of a laser beam to trap small particles, so that
when the beam moves, the particles move with it. Biologists already use optical
trapping to grab single cells - to separate out a single red blood cell for use
in research on sickle cell anemia or malaria therapies, for instance. (New
Scientist 6/4/04)<BR><A
href="http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99995065&sub=Nanotechnology">http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99995065&sub=Nanotechnology</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scientist Sees Space Elevator in 15 Years.
President Bush wants to return to the moon and put a man on Mars. But scientist
Bradley C. Edwards (Scientific Research in Fairmont, W.Va. NASA) has an idea
that's really out of this world: an elevator that climbs 62,000 miles into
space. Edwards thinks an initial version could be operating in 15 years, a year
earlier than Bush's 2020 timetable for a return to the moon. He pegs the cost at
$10 billion, a pittance compared with other space endeavors...Edwards' elevator
would climb on a cable made of nanotubes — tiny bundles of carbon atoms many
times stronger than steel. The cable would be about three feet wide and thinner
than a piece of paper, but capable of supporting a payload up to 13 tons. The
cable would be attached to a platform on the equator, off the Pacific coast of
South America where winds are calm, weather is good and commercial airplane
flights are few. The platform would be mobile so the cable could be moved to get
out of the path of orbiting satellites. (Yahoo 6/26/04)<BR><A
href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/space_elevator">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/space_elevator</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wireless nanocrystals efficiently radiate visible
light. A wireless nanodevice that functions like a fluorescent light - but
potentially far more efficiently - has been developed in a joint project between
the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos and Sandia national
laboratories. The experimental success, reported in the June 10 issue of Nature,
efficiently causes nanocrystals to emit light when placed on top of a nearby
energy source, eliminating the need to put wires directly on the nanocrystals.
(EurekAlert 6/22/04) <A
href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-06/dnl-wne062204.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-06/dnl-wne062204.php</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lord of the molecular rings created. The Borromean
ring, an icon of Nordic and Christian traditions, has been self-assembled at the
molecular scale level for the first time. The new molecule, composed of three
interlocking rings, provides another new component for future nano-devices. (New
Scientist 5/28/04) <A
href="http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99995050&sub=Nanotechnology">http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99995050&sub=Nanotechnology</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>SIA sets national research initiative. The
Semiconductor Industry Association has approved formation of the Nanoelectronics
Research Initiative to develop exotic nanoscale devices. NRI, which is expected
to begin operations as early as next year, will reach annual funding levels of
$100 million or more during the implementation phase, with engineers from
industry working at several university-based centers. The institute will create
"a road map for addressing challenges, focus nano research and eliminate
redundancies," John E. Kelly III, the senior vice president in charge of IBM
Corp.'s microelectronics operations, told the SIA board of directors at a
meeting earlier this month. (EETimes 6/25/04) <A
href="http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22102124">http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22102124</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Indian doctor duo make DNA horoscopes at
birth. doctor duo from Trivandrum have developed a technique to map the
DNA sequencing of human beings so as to predict their future tendencies and also
help fight diseases. Ajit Kumar and Arun Kumar, both genetic experts from the
city's main state-run hospitals, have developed the "Nano Geneseq Chip", which
analyses the entire future genetic proposition of a human at birth itself. In
layman terms the computer can, to almost 100 percent accuracy, predict how a
child will grow-right from its height, color and other physical attributes to
his eating habits and even romantic tendencies. Named 'NANOGENESEQ', the chip
analyses the DNA samples of newborns, taken either from blood, spinal cord or
saliva, effectively making a 'genetic horoscope' of the baby. (WebIndia 6/23/04)
<A
href="http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=41431&cat=India">http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=41431&cat=India</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oregon Team Uses DNA as Template for Organizing
Nanoparticles. Researchers at the University of Oregon's Oregon Nanoscience and
Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) are now able to control precisely the
spacing between nanoparticles, a key advance in the genesis of a new class of
nanoscale electronics and optics...Using DNA as a template, the UO team has hit
upon a convenient and reliable method to organize small gold nanoparticles into
linear chains with precisely controlled interparticle spacing over a range of
1.5 to 2.8 nanometers. Controlling the magnitude and precision of the particle
spacing is essential for creating electronic and optical applications of
nanostructures. (Nanoelectronicsplanet.com 6/10/04) <BR><A
href="http://www.nanoelectronicsplanet.com/nanochannels/research/article/0,4028,10497_3366481,00.html">http://www.nanoelectronicsplanet.com/nanochannels/research/article/0,4028,10497_3366481,00.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>X-Rayed Movie. A research team has produced the
fastest movies ever made of electron motion. Created by scattering x rays off of
water, the movies show electrons sloshing in water molecules, and each frame
lasts just 4 attoseconds (quintillionths of a second). The results, published in
the 11 June PRL, could let researchers "watch" chemical reactions even faster
than those viewable with today's "ultrafast" pulsed lasers. X rays can reveal
atomic-scale spatial details in liquids and solids because their wavelengths are
as short as the distances between atoms. Experiments typically involve aiming an
x-ray beam at a sample and measuring the intensity of scattered x rays at each
angle around the sample. In so-called inelastic x-ray scattering, researchers
also measure the energy of the scattered rays, since x rays sometimes lose
energy as they ricochet off of electrons. In theory, the scattering angles lead
to nanoscale still pictures, while the energy loss data tell researchers how the
pictures change with time. (Physical Review Focus 6/26/04)<BR><A
href="http://focus.aps.org/story/v13/st25">http://focus.aps.org/story/v13/st25</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3-D Chemistry Builds Complex Micro-Structures. "We
believe this technique provides a real competitive advantage for making
complicated 3-D microstructures." That's Georgia Institute of Technology
Researcher Seth Marder describing what he terms "a disruptive platform
technology that we believe will provide broad new capabilities." Marder, also a
professor at Georgia Tech's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, says the
technique could compete with existing processes for fabricating many
microfluidic devices. He also cites such things as photonic bandgap structures,
optical storage devices, photonic switches and couplers, sensors, actuators,
micromachines -- even scaffolds for growing living tissues...Also demonstrated:
the fabrication of tiny silver wires from patterns written in materials
containing silver nanoparticles and ions. (SmallTimes 6/23/04)<BR><A
href="http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8095">http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8095</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NASA Lockheed Martin Form Nanotechnology
Partnership. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and the Lockheed
Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif., are launching a new
collaborative effort to pursue innovative nanotechnology research to help
achieve the nation's Vision for Space Exploration through development of
advanced aerospace systems. Nanotechnology is the ability to control or
manipulate matter on the atomic scale, making it possible to create structures,
devices and systems that have novel properties and functions because of their
small size: 1/1000th the diameter of a human hair. "Nanoscience has the
potential to both increase capability and decrease weight, which reduces cost,"
said NASA Ames Center Director G. Scott Hubbard. "Future developments could lead
to improved thermal and radiation protection and new sensors that could monitor
the environment as well as detect the fingerprints of life."(NASA news 6/22/04)
<A
href="http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2004/04_60AR.html">http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2004/04_60AR.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BBC Radio Nanotech Series. Anonymous Coward writes
"BBC Radio 4 is currently airing a series called "Small Worlds" which deals with
a new nanotechnology issue each Wednesday at 9:00pm. All the programs are
available for download at <A
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/smallworlds.shtml">http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/smallworlds.shtml</A>.
Towards the end of the second program the "Sticky Fingers" argument is used by
George Whitesides to dismiss the prospect of Nanoscale machines." (Nanodot.org
6/18/04) <BR><A
href="http://nanodot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/18/2218203">http://nanodot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/18/2218203</A>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors. A company called
Kereos is developing a pair of nanotechnologies to identify tumors that measure
just 1 mm in diameter, then kill them with a tiny but precise amount of a
chemotherapy drug. The technologies, if approved by the Food and Drug
Administration, would not only find cancers in their earliest stages before they
can do damage or spread, but also deliver a small amount of a drug targeted
directly at tumors, which would cause little or no side effects. The
technologies are in the early stages of development. The diagnostic tool will
enter human trials in 2005, and the therapeutic tool should follow six months
behind, according to company officials. "What's really neat about this pair is
they both track the same biomarker," said Al Beardsley, president and CEO of
Kereos in St. Louis. "We're using it as a signpost to say, 'Hey there's a tumor
over there.' And then as a therapeutic target." Wired 6/22/04) <A
href="http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63933,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2">http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63933,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2</A><BR> <BR>Scientists
craft nano night goggles. Scientists craft nano night goggles Tiny pyramids of
molecules commonly used in communications chips could potentially reduce the
cost and increase the performance of night vision goggles, according to research
results from the University of Southern California and the University of Texas.
(CNet 6/16/04)<BR><A
href="http://news.com.com/Scientists+craft+nano+night+goggles/2110-7337_3-5236742.html">http://news.com.com/Scientists+craft+nano+night+goggles/2110-7337_3-5236742.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don Eigler A giant in the field of small things.
Don Eigler is a study in contrasts. Those who know the pioneering IBM researcher
describe him as a patient, methodical scientist -- and a daring risk-taker. A
self-described tinkerer who spends hours alone with gizmos in his garage, he
also speaks frequently in public about the interplay between nanotechnology and
society. "He's both a hard-nosed scientist and a creative artist. A real
renaissance man," said Steve Jurvetson of the Menlo Park venture capital firm
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invests in nanotechnology
companies...profile...(SFGate 6/14/04)<BR><A
href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/14/BUG9974EUA1.DTL">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/14/BUG9974EUA1.DTL</A><BR> <BR>Clothes
launder own fabric. In the classic 1951 film, The Man in the White Suit, Alec
Guinness played a scientist who invents a fabric that never gets dirty or wears
out. A chemist's pipe dream perhaps, but the prospect of self-cleaning clothes
might be getting closer. Scientists have invented an efficient way to coat
cotton cloth with tiny particles of titanium dioxide. These nanoparticles are
catalysts that help to break down carbon-based molecules, and require only
sunlight to trigger the reaction. The inventors believe that these fabrics could
be made into self-cleaning clothes that tackle dirt, environmental pollutants
and harmful microorganisms. (Nature 6/14/04)<BR><A
href="http://www.nature.com/nsu/040607/040607-9.html">http://www.nature.com/nsu/040607/040607-9.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>New version of nanotechnololgy. In my previous
column, I wrote about a NASA study that suggests self-replicating nanomachines
are indeed possible. These bacteria-size robots, first envisioned by
nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler, would be used to construct materials and
products from the bottom up, one atom or molecule at a time...But in a new
article in the journal Nanotechnology, Drexler and protege Chris Phoenix write
that such nanobots are unnecessary for successful molecular manufacturing. I
asked Phoenix what this updated version of nanomanufacturing would look like...
(USNews 6/15/04) <A
href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/nextnews/archive/next040615.htm">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/nextnews/archive/next040615.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do the Nano-Locomotion. Like a futuristic
submarine, a newly designed nanomachine would thrust itself through fluid using
an unusual type of propulsion. In the June Physical Review E a research team
proposes a simple, sphere-and-rod device that swims by changing its length along
only one dimension. Its simplicity may make it attractive to engineers, who
could use the "swimmer" to move nano-cargo through liquid environments, such as
water or a bloodstream. (PRF 6/25/04) <A
href="http://focus.aps.org/story/v13/st27#videos">http://focus.aps.org/story/v13/st27#videos</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gold-tipped Nanocrystals Developed By Hebrew
University. "Nanodumbells" – gold-tipped nanocrystals which can be used as
highly-efficient building blocks for devices in the emerging nanotechnology
revolution – have been developed by researchers at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. The technology, developed by a research group headed by Prof. Uri
Banin of the Department of Physical Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology of the Hebrew University, is described in an article in the
current issue of Science magazine. (Science Daily 6/2/04) <A
href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040621073848.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040621073848.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Silicon carbide nanoflowers bloom. Researchers at
the University of Cambridge, UK, have grown unusual silicon carbide
nanostructures. The team’s vapour-liquid-solid process produced nanoflowers,
nanotrees and nanobouquets of the material. “The unique structures will have a
range of exciting applications,” said Mark Welland of Cambridge University. “Two
that are currently being explored are their use as water-repellent coatings and
as a base for a new type of solar cell.” <BR>(nanotechweb 6/24/04) <A
href="http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/3/6/11/1">http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/3/6/11/1</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gina "Nanogirl" Miller<BR>Nanotechnology
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