Drs. Zeynap Celik-Butler and Donald P. Butler discuss their Nanotechnology research at UT Arlington. If you would like to learn more please go to: www.uta.edu

newsinfo.nd.edu Notre Dame's Stinson-Remick Hall is a 142000-square-foot facility that houses a nano technology research center, an 9000-square-foot semiconductor processing and device fabrication clean room, and an undergraduate interdisciplinary learning center.

Carnegie Mellon alumnus Ray Baughman (S'64) describes new nanotechnologies.

Last February, Nature Nanotechnology announced the development at UCC's Tyndall National Institute of the world's first junctionless transistor. The transistor is the building block of the microchip and the breakthrough by Professor Jean-Pierre Colinge, was greeted by the semiconductor industry as a major advance. Now, Professor Colinge is back in the news with a transistor that is reduced again by a factor of twenty. To put in it context, his latest innovation is 2000 times smaller than a strand of human hair, 30 per cent more energy efficient than existing transistors and gives a better performance than transistors now on the market! With up to two billion transistors on a single microchip, the latest breakthrough will help to drive more simple manufacturing processes and is again being viewed as a significant leap forward. Professor Colinge explains:

Researchers at Warwick University explain how the small scale world of nanotechnology is having a big impact on our everyday world, part two - cement and nano, amongst other things.

Kit Umbach discusses challenges of device scaling and introduces molecular electronics

Jon Belkowitz, a doctoral student at Stevens Institute of Technology, studies chemical reactions within concrete at the nanoscale. Taking advantage of Stevens nanostructure characterization tools and materials, his research into the optimal use of nano silica will create a new concrete mixture that will result in longer-lasting buildings, roadways, sidewalks, stairs, sewers, and dams.

In recent years, astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity toward far-reaching morphological transformation that promises in the very near future to redefine what it means to be human. An international, intellectual, and fast-growing cultural movement known as transhumanism intends the use of genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology (Grin technologies) as tools that will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring, and even perhaps—as Joel Garreau in his best-selling book, Radical Evolution, claims—our very souls. The technological, cultural, and metaphysical shift now underway unapologetically forecasts a future dominated by this new species of unrecognizably superior humans, and applications under study now to make this dream a reality are being funded by thousands of government and private research facilities around the world. As the reader will learn, this includes, among other things, rewriting human dna and combining humans with beasts, a fact that some university studies and transhumanists believe will not only alter our bodies and souls but ultimately could open a door to contact with unseen intelligence. As a result, new modes of perception between things visible and invisible are expected to challenge the church in ways that are historically and theologically unprecedented. Without comprehending what is quickly approaching in related disciplines of research and development ...

HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technical education where technical educators, counselors, industry professionals, and technicians can update their knowledge and skills. Charged with Educating America's Technical Workforce, the event focuses on the preparation needed by the existing and future workforce for companies in the high-tech sectors that drive our nation's economy. HI-TEC uniquely explores the convergence of scientific disciplines and technologies including: * Advanced Manufacturing Technologies * Energy and Environmental Technologies * Biotechnology and Chemical Process Technologies * Engineering Technologies * Information, Geospatial, & Security Technologies * Learning and Evaluation * Electronics, Micro and Nano Technologies * Best Practices in Technology Education * Technicians in the Workplace

WSU professor Jose Delgado-Frias is working to advance the world of computer hardware by merging the fields of digital technology and nanoelectronics. Using carbon nanotubes, he hopes to improve the speed, size and reliability of the microprocessor enabling it to push the power of electronics to levels previously thought impossible.