By Porter Wright on Chemical Business NewsBase recently published an article comparing global private funding to government funding for nanotechnology research, development, and commercialization. The article cites Lux Research figures indicating that private funding for nanotechnology reached $9.6 billion in 2008, while government investment was $8.6 billion. According to the article, this was the first year that private spending … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on E. Clayton Teague of the National Nanotechnology Initiative is scheduled to testify before the House subcommittee on Research and Science Education on October 31 to address the NNI’s development of its "risk research strategy." NNI has been criticized by several organizations including the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, the American Chemistry Council, and DuPont for its delayed development of … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Researchers at Rice University successfully utilized a near-infrared flourescent imaging technique to detect individual carbon nanotubes in fruit flies. The study, reported here and here, involved an experiment where the researchers fed fruit fly larvae a diet that contained carbon nanotubes. The flies were then shot with a laser, which excited the nanotubes and allowed them to be viewed using a … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on According to this recent article in the Jerusalem Post, the European Union is the top public financier of nanotechnology: With €1.4 billion allocated to 550 projects in the field of nanosciences and nanotechnology, the EU’s 6th Research Framework Program accounts for one-third of total public funding for nanotechnology and is the world’s largest single funding … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Earlier today, two top nanoscientists — Dr. Andrew Maynard, Chief Science Advisor, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson Center and Dr. Sally S. Tinkle, Assistant to the Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health — made a presentation at the Woodrow Wilson International Scholar Center announcing their new article appearing … Continue Reading
