From: Doug Bailey (Doug.Bailey@ey.com)
Date: Mon Nov 16 1998 - 14:28:58 MST
Good news from the Sixth Foresignt Conference in Santa Clara.
Five major advances were announced. Here is a brief summary of
each advance:
1 - Bucky Horns: Sumio Iijima of NEC Corporation, Japan, announced
the ability to grow this new class of carbon nanostructures, the
next step beyond buckyballs and buckytubes.
2 - Biopowered Nanomotor: Carlo Montemagno of Cornell University
announced success in building biological-motor powered mechanical
devices. All the tools are now in place to make this happen within
a living cell. (I posted about this one on Friday)
3 - Nanomanipulator: MinFeng Yu of Washington University generated
excitement by showing the first-ever movies of interactive 3D
manipulation of carbon nanotubes, using a new research device built
by Zyvex LLC.
4 - Nanotube Transistor: Cees Dekker of Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands, presented work on buckytubes as a new
kind of molecular quantum wire and a field effect nanotube
transistor, called TubeFET.
5 - Single-Molecule Tape Measure: Mark Akeson of University of
California, Santa Cruz, announced the use of a molecular pore able
to electrically "read" long molecules at high speed, even
differentiating among DNA bases in groups as small as five.
Next goal: rapidly read DNA base-by-base.
PR Newswire
Doug Bailey
doug.bailey@ey.com
nanotech@cwix.com
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