Nanotechnology

A new introduction:
“APM in brief” (and its physical principles)

May 24, 2013

A new introduction “APM in brief” (see the column to the right) outlines the importance of atomically precise manufacturing and the current state of progress. “The Physical Basis of High-Throughput Atomically Precise Manufacturing” (see link at the end) is a new page on the technology itself. I hope that these items help to clarify the [...]

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Mining the seabed
for resources that won’t be scarce

May 21, 2013

The BBC describes an unprecedented surge of interest from state-owned and private mining companies in scraping the Pacific seabed to recover manganese nodules, mineral-rich lumps that grow at rates on the order of 1 cm per million years: Millions of years in the making The chemical composition of nodules varies… Those of greatest economic interest [...]

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Review of Radical Abundance:
“Books in Brief” in Nature

May 17, 2013

A good paragraph in Nature:

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Guest Post: Drexler at Town Hall in Seattle

May 16, 2013

By Stephanie Corchnoy, Ph.D. Seattle, May 9, 2013 (announcement) Well over 100 attendees, many with a copy of Radical Abundance already in hand, turned out to hear Drexler speak at Town Hall in Seattle on the evening of May 9th. Ranging in age from grad student to senior citizen, some attendees sported badges from Microsoft [...]

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Albany interview

May 15, 2013

I’m catching up after my US trip. Here’s a link to an interview that I did for the Times Union. A sample question: What are some of the ramifications that APM could have for global economics and particularly for developing economies? There’s a lot to say about Albany, starting with the $14 billion industry/university nanotechnology [...]

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Radical Abundance is now available

April 30, 2013

On Amazon: Radical Abundance:

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Rio+20, sustainable development goals,
and APM

April 21, 2013

In the wake of the United Nations Rio+20 summit in Brazil, Prof. David Griggs and a group of other authors have published an article in Nature that presents a set of provisional sustainable development targets for 2030. Each of these targets has strong ties to topics that I discuss in Radical Abundance: “Goal 1: Thriving [...]

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Speaking at a London Nanotechnology Event:
“How can we capture the possibilities but avoid the pitfalls of nanotechnology?”

March 15, 2013

From the Oxford Martin School’s announcement: Time: 26 March 2013 18:30 – 19:45 Location: Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE Featured Event “How can we capture the possibilities but avoid the pitfalls of nanotechnology?” This London-based event is a collaboration between the Oxford Martin School, Policy Exchange and Nesta It’s often called the ‘fourth [...]

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An Advance in Structural DNA Nanotechnology

March 5, 2013

Faster, more reliable fabrication of atomically precise products: We demonstrate that, at constant temperature, hundreds of DNA strands can cooperatively fold a long template DNA strand within minutes into complex nanoscale objects….Folding at optimized constant temperatures enabled the rapid production of three-dimensional DNA objects with yields that approached 100%. The results point to similarities with [...]

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Missing pieces: The lost history of how nanotechnology took hold in the world

February 13, 2013

My new book, Radical Abundance, is now (at last!) nearing release. It reframes prospects for atomically precise manufacturing (APM), exploring timeless physical principles, surprising progress, and potential applications to global challenges that include economic development and climate change. Radical Abundance also looks back on the history of ideas that has shaped today’s perceptions of APM. [...]

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Nanotechnology at Lloyd’s of London

May 30, 2012

Where the action is at Lloyd’s There’s a now a video of a talk that I gave at Lloyd’s of London, a unique, global insurance institution founded in 1688. The Financial Services and Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Networks (in collaboration with the Lighthill Risk Network) hosted the talk, and I directed my remarks primarily to insurance [...]

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Beilstein Symposium 2012:
Molecular Engineering and Control

May 23, 2012

Last week I gave the opening talk at the 10th Beilstein Symposium in Prien, Germany, a meeting focused on molecular engineering and control. This is a small, invitational meeting series — the kind where about half the participants are also speakers. What makes the Beilstein Symposiums unusual is their cross-disciplinary orientation. At this year’s meeting, [...]

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