Challenges Remain for Effective Growth of Nanotechnology Enabled Products

According to conclusions from the recent report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) the $12B NNI investment in nanotechnology since 2001 has provided a “catalytic and substantial impact.” Yet, with this positive assessment, significant challenges remain in order to stimulate sustainable economic impact and growth through commercialization of nanotechnologies. These challenges include workforce training and education while further balancing key issues of societal impact and worker safety through regulatory oversight. Several issues have recently been cited by industry groups, government organizations, and the PCAST report regarding regulation, workforce training, and effective commercialization of nanoscience breakthroughs that suggest a critical balance must be struck during the second decade of the NNI in order to optimally reap the benefits of federal investments. Also: Understanding the Resistivity-Transparency Tradeoffs for Carbon Nanotube Electrodes on Flexible Substrates; NanoBusiness Alliance Interview with Ajay Malshe; and NIST Wins R&D100 Award for Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscopy

National Nanomanufacturing Network Events 2011

Nanoinformatics 2011 brought together informatics experts, nanotechnology researchers, and other stakeholders and potential contributors to advance Nanoinformatics 2020 Roadmap goals. The workshop will set a clear path for Nanoinformatics participants through the presentation of projects and research, open discussions, and strategic planning sessions. The Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 – showcased emerging areas of nanomanufacturing and commercialization of nanotechnology-enabled products by leaders in the field of nanomanufacturing

Advanced Nanomanufacturing for Wearable Human Performance Monitoring Sensor Platforms

As part of the mini-symposium entitled Creating Devices for Personalized Health Monitoring, Dr. Morse discusses advances in transitioning nanofabrication processes for realizing sensors for personalized health monitoring, including the development of wearable microfluidic sensors for detection of biomarkers indicative of stress and fatigue. Examples from current projects include nanoparticle field effect transistor (FET) sensors, printed microfluidics, and replication of antimicrobial/anti-fouling surfaces via high throughput, roll-to-roll processes

The Still Secret Ballot: The Limited Privacy Cost of Transparent Election Results

After an election, should election officials release an electronic record of each ballot? The release of such cast vote records could bolster the legitimacy of the certified result. But it may also facilitate vote revelation, where an analyst unravels the secret ballot by uniquely linking vote choices on the anonymous ballot to the voter's name and address in the public voter file. We provide the first empirical study of the extent of vote revelation under several possible election-reporting regimes, ranging from precinct-level results to the individual ballot records known as cast vote records. Using Maricopa County, Arizona, as a case study, we find that cast vote records could reveal less than 0.2% of any voters' choices in the 2020 general election. Perhaps counterintuitively, releasing cast vote records coded by precinct and vote method are no more revelatory than releasing aggregate vote tallies for each precinct and vote method. We conclude that cast vote records are sufficiently privacy-protecting, and suggest how the privacy violations that do remain could be reduced.Comment: Initial draft, 42 pages, 6 figures, 2 table

NNN Test Bed Reviews: July 2009

In this month's newsletter we are posting the first in a series of system level nanomanufacturing test-bed reviews. System level test-beds are public-private partnerships designed to transfer promising fundamental discoveries and developments from the research laboratory to viable manufacturing platforms that can be adopted by industry. This month: Self-Assembled Polymer Templates for Device Fabrication: High-Rate and Low-Cost for Roll-to-Roll Processing. Also: Progress Towards High-Throughput Continuous Nanoimprinting; Nanopillars Promise Cost-Effective Photovoltaics; and Aerosol Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Networks for Thin Film Transistors

Nanomanufacturing Summit 2009

Major nanomanufacturing community conference to be held on May 26-29 2009 in Boston, MA. Includes NNN Feature: Nanofabrication User Facilities; NNN Highlight: Novel Nanostructured Microbattery Fabrication; NNN Expert Review: Nanomanufacturing for Fuel Cells

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Nanomanufacturing Summit 2009

We'd like to thank all of our participants and attendees for making the first Nanomanufacturing Summit a successful event! The Nanomanufacturing Summit 2009 held in Boston from May 27 to 29 brought together experts in the field of and nanomanufacturing and highlighted innovative academic, government and industry research, successful commercialization strategies, and challenges and approaches for bridging the gap between the laboratory and the production floor. Also: Funding Innovations for Critical National Need; Helium Ion Microscope for Precision Lithography; and Functional Self Assembly Incorporating Quantum Dot-Block Copolymer Hybrids

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