The Year in Nanotech

HenryTo · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: The Year in Nanotech

For 2007, courtesy of MIT Technology Review. Carbon nanotubes are again a focus, along with better battery and solar technology, technology that could lead to a Harry Potter style invisibility cloak, better memory technologies, and so forth:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/19983/?nlid=782

HenryTo · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:09 pm Post subject:

Moore's Law extended again--thanks to graphene and now molybdenite.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39561/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-01-30

rffrydr · Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:38 am Post subject:

Not exactly nanotech, but something big in little has come our way:

http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3654

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rffrydr · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 7:17 am Post subject:

Industrial policy...."has the battle been lost?"

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-manufacturing-revival-20110515,0,569232.story?page=2

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:52 am Post subject:

For 2008: The Year in Nano- and Bio-materials:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21900/?nlid=1616&a=f

HenryTo · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:47 am Post subject:

Hi DJ,

Nice to see you're back - hope you had a great Holidays season.

The only nano ETF, as far as I know, is PXN. The Motley Fool wrote an article on it about 12 months ago:

http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2006/11/21/a-good-etf-powershares-lux-nanotech.aspx

The top ten holdings of the ETF can be found here:

http://quote.yahoo.com/q/hl?s=PXN

Probably the best "pure play" on the ETF trend is Harris & Harris (TINY), which is essentially a VC/investment fund that invests in start-up and small cap nanotech firms:

http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2007/08/24/nanotech-promises-one-heckuva-ride.aspx

That being said, I am not sure what to make of their investment in D-Wave - which has essentially be hyping their "quantum computing" device for the last 12 months with no solid results to show for it.

Best regards,

Henry

texfly101 · Senior Poster Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 118

Henry,
Great article, thanks for link. Now to wade thru all of the related links. It has been said that the future is determined by where people focus their interests and the fact that nanotechnology is a current darling of both the academics and industry probably says it will be a positive growth area. Aerospace is really looking into this area for obvious reasons and it has been a hard fact that anything developed in aerospace eventually trickles down into the consumer market and the shelves of Wal-Mart. So we are definitely looking at future products that we will buy our grandchildren.
On a related note, is there a Nano ETF? Like what happened in the carbon fibre composites that I first was working in back in the 1960's, I see nanotech going the same path. Buy and hold the right companies and maybe you get the MSFT and AAPL's of today. Any thoughts or suggestions in that area?
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