Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) face the future

PhysicsWeb - A host of novel applications and new physics could be unleashed as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) shrink towards the nanoscale (significant useful technical detail)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/14/2/8

Nanotubes gain larger kin

Technology Research News - ory. Researchers at Drexel University have discovered giant nanotubes in the pores of glassy carbon, an industrial material. These graphite polyhedral crystals range up to several orders of magnitude larger than their nanometer-
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/101800/Graphite_Polyhedrals_101800.htm

University of California, Berkeley

The Zettl Research Group create tiny frictionless bearings and springs out of nested multi-walled carbon nanotubes.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2000/07/27_nano.html

San Jose Mercury News

Nanotechnology from science fiction to fact
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg101599.htm

Feynman - There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom

a transcript of the classic talk given by Richard Feynman at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech.
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

Small world

It's a small, small, small, small world by Ralph C. Merkle. This is an extended web version of the article published in the Feb/Mar 1997 issue of MIT Technology Review. This version has greater technical detail and embedded links
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/MITtecRvwSmlWrld/article.html

A Mechanical Artificial Red Cell: Respirocytes

First nanorobot device design paper ever published in a peer-reviewed, mainstream medical journal.
http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Respirocytes.html

First Chemical Reaction performed via STM

Major Milestone: scientists at the University of Berlin use a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to manipulate single molecules to perform a complete chemical reaction.
http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2000/split/pnu503-2.htm

Hewlett-Packard Labs Worldwide - News

HP Labs scientists have created the first molecular-based logic gate.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/molecules_that_compute.html

NEC: Press Release

Ultra Precise Nanometer-scale 3D Production Technology used to make world's smallest wineglass
http://www.nec.co.jp/english/today/newsrel/0012/0701.html

Nanotubes Fall into Line

Technology Review - IBM researchers develop a technique for growing nanocrystals which yield perfectly aligned, dense groves of single-wall nanotubes, and controls exactly where the crystals are deposited.
http://www.techreview.com/web/mason/mason052401.asp

Is the future nano?

Chembytes e-zine - Overview of nanotechnology: yesterday and today.
http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/ezine/2000/rouvray_dec00.htm

Tighten your nano belt!

Why Files - Nanobelts join nanotubes in the world of nanotechnology.
http://whyfiles.org/shorties/074nanobelts/index.html

Carbon Nanotube Integrated Circuit

Physics News - current densities hundreds of times greater than that of common metals; also: heat conductivity almost as high as that of diamond; superconductivity in nanotube ropes; nanotube/buckyball peapods; nanotubes as atomic force microscope probes.
http://newton.ex.ac.uk/aip/physnews.531.html

Size Matters: Smaller is Better

Cornell Magazine OnLine - The Nanobiotechnology Center at Cornell University, and what their interdisciplinary group is up to.
http://cornell-magazine.cornell.edu/Archive/Jan2001/SizeMatters.html

Carbon Nanotube Transistors

IBM News - IBM scientists have developed a breakthrough transistor technology by building the world's first array of transistors out of carbon nanotubes using a new technique called "constructive destruction".
http://www.ibm.com/news/2001/04/27.phtml

Space Elevators Get A Lift

Space Daily - using nanotubes to construct the cable for a space elevator
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/future-01f.html

Inorganic Nanotubes

About.com - The arrangement of atoms into cylindrical nanocrystals is a stable phase for numerous elements. The inert nature of boron nitride and tungsten disulfide nanotubes makes them particularly durable molecular components for NEMS.
http://nanotech.about.com/science/nanotech/library/weekly/aa082000a.htm

Honey, I shrunk the scientist

MSNBC: Technology on the Frontier - Virtual reality technology enables microscopic probing
http://www.msnbc.com/news/514233.asp

Non-Metallic Room Temperature Magnet

New Scientist - Russian physicist Tatiana Makarova heated and compressed buckyballs to create an at-room-temperature magnetic sheet.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991443

The Problem of Nonsense in Nanotechnology

MNT, being a new, highly interdisciplinary field with revolutionary implications, is bound to attract more than its fair share of bogosity. Short paper by K Eric Drexler.
http://discuss.foresight.org/~pcm/nano/rutgers/bogosity

Designer Molecules: It's Time to Think Small

Far Eastern Economic Review - Nanotechnology has long had the potential to revolutionize a host of industries. Now it's on the threshold of having real-world applications.
http://www.feer.com/cgi-bin/HSE/HSE.cgi?url=http://www.feer.com/articles/2001/0101_18/p034innov.html;geturl;terms=Nanotechnology

Nano Technology: No, its not all hype

BusinessWeek Online - excellent article on which companies are doing what in nanotechnology research and applications.
http://www.businessweek.com/bw50/content/mar2002/a3776078.htm

The New Nanofrontier

Scientific American - Nano-copter, Nano-arm, Nano-hand, and Nano-box
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000C7091-590A-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21

Search Google News

Latest nanotechnology news items from around the globe.
http://news.google.com/news?&q=nanotechnology

Introducing Molecular Electronics

Introduces the basic concepts, looks at the promise that this new technology holds, and describes the fundamental questions on how to achieve the proper results.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6X1J-45RDX7M-26&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-CV-MsSAYWW-UUA-AUCUWCBVAC-CECVUEEVE-CV-U&_fmt=full&_coverDate=02%2F01%2F2002&_rdoc=26&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%237244%232002%23999949997%23313720!&_cdi=72

Moletronics: Future Electronics

Surveys recent works within the field.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6X1J-45RDX7M-27&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-CV-MsSAYWW-UUA-AUCUWCBVAC-CECVUEEVE-CV-U&_fmt=full&_coverDate=02%2F01%2F2002&_rdoc=27&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%237244%232002%23999949997%23313720!&_cdi=72

Researchers close in on single-atom switch

EETimes - Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research is close to developing the first single-electron tunneling transistor capable of operating at room temperature.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010306S0061

Topix.net: Nanotech

News about nanotechnology, collected from various sources on the web.
http://rss.topix.net/rss/tech/nanotech.xml

Intel Builds World's Smallest Transistors

Transistors three atoms thick could boost chip speeds sixfold in five years.
http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/news-article-Intel.html