Dr. Neal Lane Then - Director of the National Science ... - Nanowerk

- Nanotechnology and Occupational Health, Minnesota, October 3, 2005 -
Nanoscale science and engineering allow us to reach beyond our natural size limitation
and work directly at the building blocks of matter where the properties of matter are
defined and can be changed. Material structures with fundamentally new properties,
new tools demonstrating nanoscale phenomena, new molecular assembling and
techniques yielding control of structures at the nanoscale, are leading to a unified set of
general principles and methods of investigation for a variety of disciplines and areas of
application. Key engineering drivers are novel methods for creating engineered
nanosystems, nanomanufacturing, and the synergism with modern biology and
information technology. Several generations of nanotechnology products are expected
to evolve from relatively simple nanostructures for products such as coatings and hard
metals, to active components such as nanoscale actuators and transistors, followed by
nanosystems with new architectures, and molecular nanosystems.
Nanotechnology
Abstract
M.C. Roco,
U.S. National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee
on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET),
and Senior Advisor, National Science Foundation (NSF)