New College opens nanotechnology lab
Imagine a piece of material split so fine that it is 100,000 times smaller than the width of a single human hair. That is the minuscule world known as nanoscience that students at New College of Florida will be exploring in the school's new Optical Spectroscopy and Nano-Materials Lab, which was unveiled Friday.
Why is Russia Hot on Molecular Nanotech and the US Not ?
Proponents of molecular nanotechnology (MNT) often point to the backroom politics back at the turn of the century that relegated ideas of nanobots and tabletop factories to the margins of nanotechnology’s development in the United States. Instead what we saw was the rise of material science on the nanoscale become the darling of research funding. Or so the story goes.
