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• Massive nanotechnology review resolves hard/soft dispute

  Here on Nanodot we mentioned earlier a nanotechnology survey article titled Synthetic Molecular Motors and Mechanical Machines by Euan Kay, David Leigh, and Francesco Zerbetto. I have a paper copy now and have to admit that it is indeed worth $25, but that Read more
  Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:06 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology, Elvis, and the Beatles

  Richard Jones brings to our attention an amusing note on which to end the nanotechnology workweek: A pointer to a Technology Review blog in German by Niels Boeing which compares Drexler to Elvis and the UK’s Software Control of Matter project to the Read more
  Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 5:46 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Humor, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology leading to molecular machines

  Richard Jones and commenters bring our attention to a number of enticing research papers on the use of catalysis and molecular motors to produce movement. One paper mentioned sounds particularly useful: an overview of progress on Synthetic Molecular Motors Read more
  Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:43 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Opinion, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Intellectual Property, European Nanotechnology

• UK nanotechnology team makes motor-mechanism for nanomachines

  UK nanotech researcher David Leigh and team have published new work in Nature on a nanotechnology achievement — an information rachet, inspired by Maxwell’s Demon but not violating the Second Law — that sounds possibly important for molecular nanomachines. Read more
  Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 4:47 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology

• U.K. nanotechnology project causing U.S. nanoenvy

  In addition to the experimental project described here yesterday, there are now two more posted on the U.K. Software Control of Matter Ideas Factory blog which are very likely to be funded — the first experimental, the second theoretical: Directed Reconfigurable Read more
  Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:44 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Opinion, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Productive Nanosystems, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano, Foresight Kudos, European Nanotechnology, Computational nanotechnology

• Brits take lead toward advanced nanotechnology

  Earlier we expressed enthusiasm for the UK Software Control of Matter project, and sure enough, they have already made progress toward setting themselves an ambitious, visionary goal which is expected to be funded: We propose to create a molecular machine Read more
  Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:29 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Nanotechnology Politics, Opinion, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Productive Nanosystems, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology, Questions for Nanodot Users

• European nanotechnology team builds molecular rack-and-pinion

  Christian Joachim, winner of Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology for both experiment and theory, continues his exciting molecular machine systems work with a recent publication authored by a German/French team in Nature Materials titled “A rack-and-pinion Read more
  Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 6:53 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Productive Nanosystems, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Foresight Kudos, European Nanotechnology

• Now we all can assist UK nanotechnology project

  We’ve written before about the nanotechnology-based matter compiler project in the U.K, wishing we could participate. Richard Jones writes that now, we can: You may be interested to hear (and I’m hoping you might post about it on your blog) that Read more
  Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:41 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Public participation, Public Involvement, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Productive Nanosystems, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology torque detected with exquisite sensitivity

  The useful website Nanowerk describes a new technique invented by researchers in Spain which should be useful in analyzing nanotechnology devices: Many protein molecules, such as those that process DNA, execute twisting motions, but researchers have only managed Read more
  Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 3:25 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology shows dynamics of nature’s molecular machines

  Medical News Today tells of an advance by teams at Rutgers, UCLA, and Institut Jacques Monod in Paris on figuring out how an important molecular machine in nature does its job. Some excerpts: Two papers by Ebright and collaborators in the Nov. 17 issue of Read more
  Posted Monday, November 20, 2006 7:01 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Research, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine, European Nanotechnology, Genetic Science