Ed. note: every Friday (more or less) Nanotechnology Law Report’s David Fischer will look back at the week’s news and analysis of nano related issues. If you have something you’d like to bring to our attention, email him. This week brings another 2 week review.
- Degussa, a specialty chemical company, has established a website that it hopes will encourage debate about the opportunities and risks of nanotechnology. This writer is always glad to see companies being pro-active in communicating with the general public about nanotechnology.
- Speaking of communication, Dietram A. Scheufele at nanopublic has an excellent post on scientists’ obligations to communicate to the public.
- Purdue University researchers "have shown how to create a new class of tiny sensors for applications ranging from environmental protection to pharmaceutical preservation."
- The UN Environmental Programme argues that "tighter regulation and control is needed to ensure the safety of nanotechnology."
- As Patrick Lewis reported in this weblog, Cambridge, Massachusetts is considering Berkeley-like nanotechnology regulation.
- The San Francisco Exploratorium recently launched SmallTalk, a monthly podcast on nano issues hosted by Stephanie Chasteen of the Exploratorium’s Teacher Institute.
- Michael Heintz reviews Lynn Foster’s Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity.
- At Nanohype, David Berube reviews and does not recommend both Robert Blaunstein’s NANOTECHNOLOGY: The Plastics of the 21st Century? and Gleiche, Hoofschulz, & Lenhert’s Nanotechnology In Consumer Products.
- At blog~nano, Rocky Rawstern reviews the year 2057.
- Pearl Chin has a fascinating article at Nanotechnology Now about investing in nanotechnology and nanotechnology IPOs.
- Advanced Nanotechnology reports on current and future port security.
- Nanodot reports that China is rapidly gaining in nanotechnology competition and on how Sun is profiting from nanotechnology R&D.
- Soft Machines discusses a near-term nanotechnology application: nanosensors.
- Steven Currall, a visiting professor of entrepreneurship and faculty co-director of the Institute of Technology at London Business School and professor of Enterprise & the Management of Innovation at University College London, has an op-ed in Business Week in which he "debunks" the nanotech myths.
- Finally, we wish a fond farewell and best of luck to George Elvin who will no longer be blogging at NanotechBuzz in order to focus exclusively on his work as director of the Green Technology Forum.
