IBM's Nano initiative

This post can just well be a link to IBM's efforts in our dearest field of study. However, I would also like to point out their impressive work on Quantum Computing

Along side, feel free to bookmark - their IBM-NANO link.

What money people think of Nano

Dont we all know that what makes or breaks a technology is its own marketability. True, technology markets itself, but only so far;

Hear out to how money managers and money aspirers are going Gaga Over Nano

According to the article the companies to watch for are (I have personally burnt a few hundred bucks on NGEN - and just when I wanted to risk a whole grand on ALTI, it shot up 150% and I backed out) ALTI, JMAR, NANX and TINY.

As much as I would like to be associated with nanotech, I would also like to see this industry grow and benefit millions of people; like providing cheaper, efficient and fool proof drugs; like providing low energy alternatives in walks of life, better roads, better transportation, become environment friendly and also who knows make us dance better and sing smoother. :-)

All'z been well and my motto is to hear "We live in such a tiny world".

Feynman Speaketh

I would be doing a great injustice to myself if this very first link to be presented about nano-tech isnt the lecture delivered by Mr.Feynman at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the CALTECH.

Here is the precursor of our interest.

The above link also has people's reactions to the lecture.

Just an update

Note: The following blog should be treated ONLY as an exercise to demystify the term "nano" and related technology.

Imagine yourself as a student of 11th grade and your math and physics teachers are desperately trying to explain things that are infinitely small, things they are so small that they are trying to make you picture the opposite end of infinite. They coined a word “infinitesimal; which might have been a take-off from a phrase “infinite decimal”. However, for matters of practical physics, scientists are able to only count 9 decimals and hence we are looking at nine decimals, “nano-decimal”. They really invented a new word (just like computer back in 30’s) nano-tech.

Most scientists back in 80’s have toyed and also made some progress with the theory of strings; however certain advancements made at this nano-scale has been turning the world of manufacturing (to begin with) upside down and brought to us a plethora of goods like cheaper and denser hard disks, fasters chips and many more. Couple to these are the efforts to reduce the power consumption of many automatic devices (they can be anything right from a valve that controls huge turbines, to the chips that are buried deep down inside your car’s electronic control board) – we are seeing exciting changes all around us, but this is happening at “small” levels (literally), we are being completely oblivious of all.

I see a few websites that already provide information like “publications”, “research” etc. I plan to do that all, but some more. I would like to give my own inputs in this blog and try to make it as original as possible.