Peaks after 3.5 years

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“The economic development of nanotechnology. An indicator based analysis”
The article can be downloaded from
http://cordis.europa.en/nanotechnology

Very important subjects derivated from the report and very interesting to investors:

- The document shows previsions for nanotech global markets of 1,000 billion USD at 2015 (figures one and two, pag. 10). Within a pessimistic scenario, the previsions are of 150 billion USD for the same year (Mitsubishi Institute, 2002). Moreover, in an optimistic scenario the previsions are of 2.6 trillion dollars at 2014 (Lux Research, 2004).
- Any case, from 2008 to 2015 you have to multiply the current market for a factor of 4. In seven years, it will have grown two for two times. In other words, year after year rhythm of growth is approximately, applying the well-known rule of 70: (70/3.5)=20%.
- You can get double market every three and half year. This sounds right. We suppose you agree with us. However, the most interesting figure of those you will be able to find it at page 22. You will observe two peaks at Fig. 15 on the patents of nanotech according to EPO (European Patents Office). Two peaks at year 1999 and at 2002. Perhaps we will be able to find a new peak every three years. Perhaps have we the same rhythm of growing for both, market and patents?
- The classification in families of developing nanotech that EPO has developed as very useful (page. 22):
o Nanobiotech
o Nanoelectronics
o Nanomaterials
o Nanodevices
o Nano-optics
o Nanomagnetics
- If you consider figures at page 23 (fig. 16) where you can observe the two most important periods and the relative growth between them: 1995-1999 and 1999-2003. Nano-optics and nano-biotech are the most enthusiastic families.
- If you believe in the accumulative character of scientific and technical knowledge and the accurate accumulation for growth happens every three and half years.
- In addition, if you consider fig. 8 where you can find peaks at the same years for VC investment and the EPO activity.
- Thus, we think that the better opportunities to invest in nanotech by 2008 and 2009 you will find at Nano-materials and Nano-electronics. You must consider that every 3.5 years, the market is double than precedent.

How

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Today we will try to know how much a robot can produce per year if we want that he generates profit for us.

Well, we have to read careafully some main figures about robots in the world.

"International Robot Exhibition. Tokyo, December 2007"

ABB Speech. Anders Jonsson. Executive vicepresident Head of Robotic Division.http://www.irex2007.jp/ENG/pdf/ABB_e.pdf Global Robotics Division.

Year: . . . . . . . . . . . R+D Expenses (b$): EBIT(b$) =====================================
2004. . . . . . . . . . . .. . 971. . . . .. . . . . . . . 450

2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . 966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800

2006. . . . . . . . . . . 1.066. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.100

6,000 researchers and developers worldwide. Sales in robotics products 1st Qt to 3rd Qt 2007: 1,2 b$

We will asume that researching personal cost is included in R+D expenses.

4,500 employees in over 50 countries. 150,000 robots installed worldwide.

Well, we can see...

(3.0b$ R+D expenses in three years + 4,500 employees * 75,000 $/year·employed*3 year, including all costs)=4,0125 b$

4,0125 b$ / 150.000 robots=26,750 $ per robot installed.

Customize and maintaining in 8 years, as 15% of acquisition price per year,...

(26,750*0.15)*8+26,750=aprox. 58,900 $ per robot total cost in 8 years. Its annual cost must be at least as he can produce to us (marginal cost). Thus...

58,900/ 8 = 7,362.5$ per year.

We think it is not expensive, in global average, to improve our industrial trends with robots. So Koji Toshima from Yaslawa Electric Corporation said in his speech "future robots that co-exist and co-prosper with humans". http://www.irex2007.jp/ENG/pdf/ABB_e.pdf

Please, do not forget to visit the link of our media center to International Robot Exhibition. Thanks.

How far away from the bottom?

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Well, perhaps you remember our post about Feynman’s memorable speech at Caltech, December, 29 – 1959 called: “There is plenty of room at the bottom” For all of us, it was the beginning of Nano-Tech.
Absolutely Mr. Feynman was right, one more time. Yes, it seems as if Ph. D. Richard Feynman stays saying to students, entrepreneurs, investors and to everybody at the entrance of his classroom “Yes, come in, there is plenty of room at the bottom, please, come in and don’t stop on researching and, of course, in investing too”.

Nevertheless, it is a practical blog. We want to show main figures and easy rules. All oriented to people that need to take decisions about investment and they need to know the exact dimensions and the future scenarios. Well, let's go!

From the memorable speech mentioned above
“Let us represent a dot by a small spot of one metal, the next dash, by an adjacent spot of another metal, and so on. Suppose, to be conservative, that a bit of information is going to require a little cube of atoms 5 times, 5 times, 5 times, that is 125 atoms.”

Well, in this paragraph the author considered 1 bit equivalent to 125 atoms.
HD-DVD versus Blue-Ray technologies and other comparatives.

Below, we will express how far away these technologies from the theory limits established by Mr. Feynman lie.

We have considered a CD-format, in other words, a disc of 5.7 cm of diameter, and with a circular sector between 2.1 and 3.5 cm. (It is easy to probe that, you can measure it)
The result of this dimensions is 8.82 exp(-3) square meters. Value [A]

We have considered too a typical atom as an sphere of 1 • exp(-10)m of radius, approximately double of Bohr’s radius. Thus, the volume of one atom will be 4.18 exp(-30) cubic meters. Value [B]

Well, now please read carefully this table:

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Technology: CD-ROM
Capacity (Gbytes):0.7
Wavelength laser source (nm): 780
Length Hole surface (micrometers): 0.8
Track-wide (micrometers):1.6
Atoms per format: 1,69Exp(+22)
Atoms-per-bit: 3,01 Exp (+12)
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Technology: DVD
Capacity (Gbytes):4.7
Wavelength laser source (nm): 650
Length Hole surface (micrometers): 0.74
Track-wide (micrometers):1.6
Atoms per format: 8,44Exp(+21)
Atoms-per-bit: 2,24 Exp (+11)

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Technology: HD-DVD
Capacity (Gbytes):15
Wavelength laser source (nm): 405
Length Hole surface (micrometers): 0.2
Track-wide (micrometers):0.4
Atoms per format: 4,22Exp(+21)
Atoms-per-bit: 3,52Exp (+10)
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Technology: Blue Ray
Capacity (Gbytes):25
Wavelength laser source (nm): 405
Length Hole surface (micrometers): 0.15
Track-wide (micrometers):0.32
Atoms per format: 3,17Exp(+21)
Atoms-per-bit: 1,58Exp (+10)
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Wow, are you surprised? We are so!

We are very, very far away from the limit established by Mr. Feynman of 125 atoms per bit. Blue Ray, the great Blue Ray, the Once, still needs 15,800,000,000 atoms per bit!!!

The most important aspect that concerns to new recording and recovering information optical technologies is the wavelength of the laser reader device. We need to research to reduce it, and we will be able to reduce the track wide recording and the Length hole of monocape.

In any case, there is plenty of room at the bottom. The investment community had to think that the recording technologies and their impact in business (better media distribution, recording format cheaper and faster) have a clear opportunity of business. If you think in investments to improve the optical systems and laser sources in order to reduce the wavelength…perhaps any nanometers only…it could be great. Sure.

Today: Stronger and the new executive trained in green energy

From the editors:

We think that next years we will able to see great transformations. We must answer to the new challenges if we want to improve our world. Today investors have to know how physical numbers (watts, nanometers, terabytes, efficience in photons energy, etc.) can be translated into money terms. Their purpose and sometimes their customers need transform the first into the second.

And of course, it is not clear. Indeed it is our mission in this blog: helping people who need harness investment opportunities at early stage in lead sector with high return and growing markets and benefits and perhaps there are not much time to decide.Because sometimes, it is necessary a scientific basis to learn what the numbers want to say. This is our engagement. This century perhaps would be known in the futre as the "3-S century". Our vision establishes a new world characterized as

• Stronger: with new, clean, sustainable and efficient energy sources
• Smaller: developing new technologies and knowledges at nanoscale world, providing us new circuits, bio-tech developments, etc
• Smarter: if we were able to perform technologies to work with all information and comunication and interact with the human being: expert systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, searching engines, and so on.

We will focuse our articles in these three topics. We think nobody has too much time to test another sectors. This three items are the key sectors today and the key to a reliable investment. Furthermore, our dream is that ireneus become a meeting point beetwen investors and researchers.Thank you very much for all and we start, we have not too much time, you know...

How to train the new executive class in renewable energy industry

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From The Economist 2008 May, 3rd-9th

"2008 May, 1st is the dead line for applications for a very special first executive-educational programme. This consists in three months course about "renewable energy". Set up by some Venture Capital firms, the course will qualify to the entrepreuners of successful starts-up (a prerrequiste for this) in the new discipline focused on manage sustainable, green and ecologycal criteria in industries such as healthcare, new energies, IT and so on .

The programme will be held in New England between June to August. 'A lack of talent we have identified in the clean-tech industry' (Peter Rothstein said, of Flagship Ventures, a programme founders. Plesase, visit www.flagshipventures.com ) That bottleneck worries investors, who have been poring cash into everything from solar energy to hybrid electric cars: last year global investment in renewable-energy business alone rose by 60% to $148,4 billion, according to New Energy Finance (NEF), a research firm based in London (please, visit http://www.newenergyfinance.com/NEF/HTML/whitepapers/2008.06.03.League.Table.2007.pdf
to download full NEF Report).

Recent global survey conducted by NEF and Heindrinck & Struggles (please, visit http://www.heidrick.com/) , a Head Hunter company, says that studied 75 senior executives, over 90% cited top-level recruitment had renewable energy as a serious concern.

But what should to offer a good programme about renewable energy to managers?

Well, we have to remark three main aspects:

1- Renewable-energy's bosses need that scientist leave the obscurity of theri Labs.
2-The executives today need project-financing techniques.
3-And of course, they also need to be able to deal with regulatory and fiscal regimes.

The prize for all executive talented in renewable and green industry knowledge, it will be clear too:
'In the sector, last years wages have soared as the industry has grown. So, they need head hunters to catch the talent and attract big utilities and private-equity funds'
(Ann Cormack, head of D1-BP Fuel Crops).

New Ireneus: Today Robots, Business and more.

From the editors:

We think that next years we will able to see great transformations. We must answer to the new challenges if we want to improve our world. Today investors have to know how physical numbers (watts, nanometers, terabytes, efficience in photons energy, etc.) can be translated into money terms. Their purpose and sometimes their customers need transform the first into the second. And of course, it is not clear.
Indeed it is our mission in this blog: helping people who need harness investment opportunities at early stage in lead sector with high return and growing markets and benefits and perhaps there are not much time to decide.Because sometimes, it is necessary a scientific basis to learn what the numbers want to say. This is our engagement.
This century perhaps would be known in the futre as the "3-S century". Our vision establishes a new world characterized as

• Stronger: with new, clean, sustainable and efficient energy sources
• Smaller: developing new technologies and knowledges at nanoscale world, providing us new circuits, bio-tech developments, etc
• Smarter: if we were able to perform technologies to work with all information and comunication and interact with the human being: expert systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, searching engines, and so on.

We will focuse our articles in these three topics. We think nobody has too much time to test another sectors. This three items are the key sectors today and the key to a reliable investment. Furthermore, our dream is that ireneus become a meeting point beetwen investors and researchers.Thank you very much for all and we start, we have not too much time, you know...

Robots and Business

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First:

John P. Desmond after Robobusiness 2008 Conference & Expo Event, expressed his opinion about VCs and Robotics because he thinks that connections are Few: "The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), for example, decided years ago that robotics would no longer be a category in its funding reports".
John P. Desmond is a contributing Editor to Robotics Trends. He can be reached at john_desmond@king-content.com

While another important executives in VC think that "The investment opportunities are few and far between. I've spent a lot of time looking for robotics investment opportunities. The military-funded companies are slow to develop and we are in the fast-to-develop business" (Stan Reiss of Matrix Partners, Waltham, Mass.- based VC company)

However, you can find out new start-up and enterprises that do not prefer be seen as robotic companies instead advanced researching centers: artificial vision or human language, sensor and advanced devices and so on, necessary to supply the robotic industry.

This enterprises can Return the investments more quickly than exclusively robotic companies, because the market for robots performing is too young and weak. Only military centers are now focused at 100% in this.

You can see www.robobusiness.com

Second:

By now we can talk about figures showed by european and japanese executives in the last 2007 International Robot Exhibition. Managers from ABB and Toyota Researching and other more talked about number of robots currently enabled today in the industry (1 Million), what is the investment in R&D in their industries last years (Nearly 1 Billion $ each last three years with 6.000 researchers. [ABB figures]) , how much money and persons
(1 PERSON working in the manufacturing robot industry by 30 ROBOTS made and installed after all. 150.000 robots installed around the world. [Figures from ABB]) are necessary to improve and comercialize a robot in the market an so on.

In this way you can get a gauge the figures of this industry today.

http://www.irex2007.jp/ENG/Simultaneous.html

Third:

Save the Date for RoboBusiness 2009!April 15-16, 2009 Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts Event information will be available in the coming months and registration will open in July. Be sure to sign up for our bulletin to receive event notifications.

Welcome to the new Ireneus: Today Energy, Solar Plans and more

From the editors:

We think that next years we will able to see great transformations. We must answer to the new challenges if we want to improve our world. Today investors have to know how physical numbers (watts, nanometers, terabytes, efficience in photons energy, etc.) can be translated into money terms. Their purpose and sometimes their customers need transform the first into the second. And of course, it is not clear.
Indeed it is our mission in this blog: helping people who need harness investment opportunities at early stage in lead sector with high return and growing markets and benefits and perhaps there are not much time to decide.Because sometimes, it is necessary a scientific basis to learn what the numbers want to say. This is our engagement.
This century perhaps would be known in the futre as the "3-S century". Our vision establishes a new world characterized as

• Stronger: with new, clean, sustainable and efficient energy sources
• Smaller: developing new technologies and knowledges at nanoscale world, providing us new circuits, bio-tech developments, etc
• Smarter: if we were able to perform technologies to work with all information and comunication and interact with the human being: expert systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, searching engines, and so on.

We will focuse our articles in these three topics. We think nobody has too much time to test another sectors. This three items are the key sectors today and the key to a reliable investment. Furthermore, our dream is that ireneus become a meeting point beetwen investors and researchers.Thank you very much for all and we start, we have not too much time, you know...

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Listen, recently published by Ken Zweibel, James Mason and Vasilis Fthenakis in Scientific American a great report about energetic scenario in EE.UU. 2050 a great plan in Solar Energy. They talked about Photovoltaic Solar Energy (PSE) and Concentrated Solar Energy (CSE) in heating fluids. There are two different technologies and two different benefits to investors. Today the two technologies are in use but the authors hope that in the future, the current economic figures of the sector will be improved, sure.

But, what is better in profitable terms? They said:

In 2007, installation cost per W: PSE- 4.0$ / CSE -5.8$
electric price per KW·h - PSE - 0.16$ / CSE - 0.20$
effectivenss in electric production - PSE - 10% / CSE - 13%

But in the future, the scenario:

In 2050, installation cost per W: PSE - 1.20$ / CSE - 3.70$
electric price per KW·h - PSE - 0.05$ / CSE - 0.09$
effectivenss in electric production - PSE - 14% / CSE - 17%

Well, to find the better target to our investment assets…

PSE: (14/10)*(0.05/0.16)*(4/1.20)=1.485
CSE: (17/13)*(0.09/0.20)*(5.8/3.70)=0.922

If we consider a linear dependence of all those factors, we have to think that PSP is more profitable than CSE in a factor 1.6 or in 60% in currency terms.

And more. By each point per cent improving effectiveness in PSE(new material photovoltaic) the benefit of our inversion will increase in...

{{1.485-[(1.485)/(14/10)]}/(14-10)}=0.106

effectiveness in PSE(new materials, new circuits, today researchers have developed in laboratory materials until 11.5%) could be expressed in currency terms as follows:

by each porcentual point in solar cell effectiveness, our investments in PSE could be improved in 10.6%.

But if you like more risk in the investments, perhaps you can select industries in solar cells productions. In 2050 the authors hope that 65% of energy in the USA could be generated by Solar Energy. The new market for this firms is incredible and by each point of increasing effectiveness in solar cell, you can get the benefit increased by ten.

Here you can find very interesting links to know more about the state-of-art in PSE and CSE
[The sector magazine. News, events and more]
http://www.photon-magazine.com/events/events.aspx
[Scientific American article: Solar Plan]
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
[The first enterprise that have managed to increase effectiveness until 11,5%]
http://www.firstsolar.com/

Well, best regards from inereus.Bye.

Feynman and Forbes.

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Do you really think that Mr. Feynman talked about micro-devices and nano-machines, Caltech December, 29 1959, for instance, was thinking in business?

http://nanoparticles.org/pdf/Feynman.pdf

[©1960 California Institute of Technology
First published in Engineering and Science magazine, vol. XXIII, no. 5, February 1960]


Do you really think that Forbes publishers had passed and elementary exam with Feynman Ph. Dr.?


Well, today Forbes and its reports are tackling the monetary flows to high-tech to get high-profits with small, small technologies thought by Mr. Feynman a long time ago.


Why so many years? We do not why. Perhaps you know. In this moment, please, visit this link to the Forbes High-Tech reports to venture capitalist and investors in high tech. Next days we follow to discuss about what history made with the scientifist creation and advances.



Has ever anybody thought to invest in ideas? Only in ideas? Do you know anybody like this?

Please, post-us its email. We would to be in touch with him. Thanks.

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Wow, some is moving in HP. Really

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We must admit that something (or perhaps somebody) is moving in HP.
Right, the last public presentation of HP Labs and its new targets.

"HP Labs is 42 years old this year. But that doesn't mean it can't act like a startup."

Moreover, the focus on researching just not belong to ancient scientifist. They want join to entrepeuners, universities and venture capitalists. Wow, they do not want act as and great, jurasic and bureaucratic entity as european institutions. They only want think in business terms and tackle the future of innovation in Information Society.

"Banerjee, who took the reins in August 2007, says a reenergized HP Labs will do more high-impact research, turn more of its technologies into successful businesses and collaborate with universities, venture capitalists, customers and others to amplify the work of its 600 researchers. "

Thus, to those investors that are thinking about future, technology and high profits we recommend this link

http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/jan-mar/hpl_transformation.html

Perhaps it is a reaction to all new and young net rich-man teenagers?
Why customers had to pay to get a new young rich-man like never have done?
Now, the great enterprises want to control the process of innovation racionalizating it?
Only the time will tell us... By now, my dear investors, look out carefully.
Bye.

A practical rule for efficient investors

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Well, we are living a veritable problem. By 2010 perhaps current oil system, in other words, all well known tasks in extract, refine and commercializating will fall down. And then only fuell-cells developed today will be able to solve this huge crisis.

We hope that hydrogen fuel-cells will be operating in our cars. BMW next year, or perhaps 2010, is going to launch his new hibryde powered model. With an autonomy of 300 Km aprox. An it will be possible thanks to nanotubes and their great adsortion power.

You can read at http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology/introduction/introduction_to_nanotechnology_15.html

" Fuel Cells
Engineered surfaces are essential in fuel cells, where the external surface properties and the pore structure affect performance. The hydrogen used as the immediate fuel in fuel cells may be generated from hydrocarbons by catalytic reforming, usually in a reactor module associated directly with the fuel cell. The potential use of nano-engineered membranes to intensify catalytic processes could enable higher-efficiency, small-scale fuel cells. These could act as distributed sources of electrical power. It may eventually be possible to produce hydrogen locally from sources other than hydrocarbons, which are the feedstocks of current attention."

Yes, the surfaces of carbon nanotubes, where a great quantity of hydrogen could be lied, that hydrogen will be a reliable fuell at ordinary temperature. If in liquid hydrogen (very dangerous state) you can get 75 g per l. of hydrogen, in carbon nanotubes, you could get 40 g per l. of fuel-cell.
And remembre this practical rule: 1 kg. of hydrogen is the same that 1 oil galon (3,8 l.)

If you are a short time investor and you are thinking in a private-equity, high technology and high, high return, well, we think your opportunity is in nanotube technology.

Can you imagine the return of your investment when all oil system will be in crisis ?

Do not forget visit our pages properly, we will talk about new and emergent technologies and very, very profitable investments.
Thank you for your attention and please, c0mment this site with your peers or your friends. (Sorry, but perhaps in the managers fund investment society, there are not so much friends. But very selected friends, of course)

Today, we will develop a pragmatic post.

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Dear friends, today we will develop a pragmatic post.

First, we show the criteria and another important matters about European Investment Fund and its activity on investment in high-tech projects, entrepreunership and start-up across Europe. Please, follow the link below. Remember that we always work hard to join money and high-tech research across the world.

EIB Group (EIB and EIF) resources for venture capital are managed by the EIF as part of the Amsterdam Special Action Programme and the Innovation 2000 Initiative. The EIF aims to invest in: Independent management teams that raise funds from a wide range of investors in order to provide risk capital to growing Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
Funds targeting early stage companies that are developing or using advanced technologies in industry or services.

Investment Target
We seek a minority position of between 10 and 35% of the total capital committed in a fund. The exact size of the EIF's investment varies according to the size and characteristics of each fund.

Eligibility Criteria
The EIF requires that its portfolio funds:
-- Raise at least EUR 15 million.
-- Focus principally their investments in the EU and the Acceding/Accession Countries.
-- Focus primarily their investments on early-stage, development or expansion capital, preferably in technology-oriented SMEs.
-- Target mainly SMEs, defined as businesses with less than 250 employees, with total turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million or a balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million, and that are independent (i.e. not owned by more than a third of their capital by non-SMEs) at the time of the fund’s first investment. In exceptional cases, a target of enterprises with more than 250 employees can be considered.
-- Be mainly independently and professionally managed, i.e.: Selection/monitoring by a dedicated management team of professionals with appropriate experience and skills;Investment/divestment decisions taken either by the management team and/or by an independent board whose members are independent from the investors.
-- Provide a risk-adjusted return in line with that of the private equity market.
-- Be mainly funded by Private sector investors, with the Public sector investors (including the EIF) not exceeding 50% to total committed capital.
Further Information
If you wish to make a venture capital proposal to us, we would normally expect to receive an information memorandum setting out the details (information memorandums are reviewed on an on-going basis).
It is not necessary to indicate on the information memorandum whether the proposal is intended for an EIB Group or an EC funded programme. Our venture capital team will allocate the source of funding at a later stage in the assessment procedure.
Please note that there is no formal application procedure for the Seed Capital Action programme.
We expect information memorandums to address at least the following matters:
· management team
· target market
· deal flow
· investment strategy
· fund size
· legal structure
· proposed terms
· expected returns
· other investors
· timing of fund raising
Once we have established that the investment opportunity may meet our investment criteria, we will normally invite management to make a presentation to us. Thereafter, we carry out detailed due diligence on all aspects of the proposal before we confirm our willingness to invest.

http://www.eif.org/venture/eibres/eib-eif-resources/index.htm

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Second, we are pleased to invite to you to see some very interesting videos. About Nanotechnology and 'the state of art' of this discipline. Speech of Ray Baughman Ph. D. at Carnegie Mellon:





Moreover, you can see how politicians have a very strong commitment in this subject.
You will be able how
CNSE announces the GetNANO
1 min 39 s - 06-oct-2007
The College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany, home to the $4.2 billion Albany NanoTech complex, is the first college in the world dedicated to research, development, education and deployment in the emerging disciplines of nanoscience, nanoengineering, nanobioscience and nanoeconomics. You can view video segments originally aired on CNSE’s "NanoNow" program, including interviews with faculty, staff and corporate partners. In this segment: CNSE announces the GetNANO (Global Education and Training for Nanotechnology) program, designed to prepare the workforce necessary to attract additional high-tech jobs, companies and investment to the Capital Region and New York State

And the last but not the least, there are very interesting people searching in nanotechnologies, and we can see their adavances. For instance,
CNSE
Associate Professor of Nanoscience Bradley Thiel discusses a dual beam microscope and its applications
1 min 39 s - 03-oct-2007
The College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany, home to the $4.2 billion Albany NanoTech complex, is the first college in the world dedicated to research, development, education and deployment in the emerging disciplines of nanoscience, nanoengineering, nanobioscience and nanoeconomics. You can view video segments originally aired on CNSE’s "NanoNow" program, including interviews with faculty, staff and corporate partners. In this segment: CNSE Associate Professor of Nanoscience Bradley Thiel discusses a dual beam microscope and its applications.

Well, see you soon. And remember, money and researching will be able to meet them.

News, good news. European prizes 2007 and nanotubes.

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European Science Awards honour


'the best that Europe has to offer' [Date: 2008-03-13]




"Andrea Ferrari carried out his Marie Curie sponsored PhD at Cambridge, UK, where he is still based today. In addition to the Marie Curie prize, he is also a recipient of one of the first European Research Council grants, which will enable him to carry on his research into carbon nanotubes for the next five years."

http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=29233

The chief editor of Nature Nanotechnology,
Dr. Peter Rodgers (right), talking to
Dr Andrea Ferrari from the Centre
of Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE),
Cambridge.

By now, Eurpean prizes and international awards. And coming soon, high revenues and great profits. Well, we think we are in the right way to show us how. It's easy to find investors. Look at this article below, please,...

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CNT@Cambridge 2007 Symposium - A mini-symposium on the science and application of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)
Prof. Malcolm Mackley (right) together with the Symposium Chair Anson Ma (left) at the CNT@Cambridge 2007 symposium.
Over 150 delegates gathered in Cambridge on last Friday (30 November) to attend the first CNT@Cambridge 2007 symposium. The theme of the symposium is the science and application of carbon nanotubes. CNTs are cylinders of rolled graphene sheets which can potentially be used in high-performance nanocomposites, nano-electronic devices and biological applications. At the symposium, Prof. Malcolm Mackley from this department addressed a keynote speech on "The microstructure and rheology of carbon nanotube (CNT) suspensions". The event was initiated by a group of students and post-doctoral researchers who share the same vision: to provide a platform for CNT researchers to exchange ideas and for industry delegates to interact with leading CNT scientists in Europe. Dr. James McGregor and Anson Ma from this department were serving on the symposium organising committee.


The symposium was generously sponsored by Churchill College, Nanoholdings LLC, ENSAM, AIXTRON and SonicBio, with participation from both academic journals (Nature and Science) and the industry (Bayer MaterialScience, Oxford Instruments, Nanocyl, Nokia, Siemens, Thomas Swan). The proceedings of the symposium will be published by Springer and will appear as a special issue of the International Journal of Material Forming. The symposium was generously sponsored by Churchill College, Nanoholdings LLC, ENSAM, AIXTRON and SonicBio, with participation from both academic journals (Nature and Science) and the industry (Bayer MaterialScience, Oxford Instruments, Nanocyl, Nokia, Siemens, Thomas Swan). The proceedings of the symposium will be published by Springer and will appear as a special issue of the International Journal of Material Forming.





Dr. Daryl Boudreaux from NanoHoldings LLC - a USA-based venture capital company - asking a question during the Q&A session. Dr. Damien Vadillo from this department was in the audience.