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Category: Engineering – Permanent Description: Description: The Nanotechnology Manager will be in charge of starting up, staffing and equipping a new subsidiary facility in the Lexington, KY area. Once the subsidiary is established, the manager will be responsible for day-to-day operations primarily involving manufacturing process research and development (R&D) & scale-up of nanopowder fabrication technology. In this role the manager ... Read More »

Job Summary Nanotechnology Engineer Job Description Position Summary The Nanotechnology Engineer will serve as a member of a technical team responsible for applying the principles of chemistry physics biology and… Job Duties Job Requirements Position Summary The Nanotechnology Engineer will serve as a member of a technical team responsible for applying the principles of chemistry physics biology and… MORE Read More »

Myers will lead efforts at one of the world’s most powerful university-based computing centers James Myers, who currently serves as associate director for cyberenvironments at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, has been selected by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to lead the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) at Rensselaer. Located at Rensselaer’s Technology Park in ... Read More »

CAIRO: The Egyptian nanotechnology market is high risk, but is only matched by its business opportunities, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, chairman of SabryCorp, told Daily News Egypt in an interview. Seeing Egypt lag behind in the nanotechnology race, Abdel-Mottaleb saw an opportunity to bring it up to speed, he explained. Nanotechnology struck the entrepreneur as fascinating back in 1997, when he was ... Read More »

I have to confess to getting more than a small chuckle from a recent blog entry from Scott Locklin, who reduces the entire enterprise of nanotechnology to 25 years of charlatanry. The criticism takes two forms. In one, the idea of labeling the surface and colloidal science “nanotechnology” is a bit bogus. Secondly, the Drexlerian vision of nanotechnology he characterizes ... Read More »

A pioneering study by researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has shown that sandwiching a simple layer of silver nanoparticles can significantly improve the performance of organic transistors which are commonly used in consumer electronics. This revolutionary breakthrough is expected to cut down the cost of memory devices such as touchscreens and e-books and improve their performance. This ... Read More »

Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year.  The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now.  I got mine in in the nick of time.  My responses to the seemingly endless ... Read More »