• States unite to support TSCA overhaul; chemical industry is increasingly odd one out

    Updated: 2010-08-31 16:03:16
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Yesterday, at its annual meeting, the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) unanimously adopted a resolution calling on Congress to enact strong and comprehensive reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). ECOS is comprised of the heads of the environmental agencies in the U.S. states and territories.  [...]

  • The best introduction to DNA nanotechnology

    Updated: 2010-08-29 00:01:56
    For a good overview of structural DNA nanotechnology and DNA origami (a molecular wonder of the modern world), see this presentation from a course in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. The subject calls for a strong visual presentation, and the slides deliver this together with a good description of DNA engineering [...]

  • FDA Will Hold Public Workshop on Medical Devices and Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2010-08-27 22:20:52
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal FDA Will Hold Public Workshop on Medical Devices and Nanotechnology FDA Will Hold Public Workshop on Medical Devices and Nanotechnology Posted on August 27, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On September 23, 2010 the Food and Drug Administration FDA will hold a public workshop entitled Medical Devices Nanotechnology : nbsp Manufacturing , Characterization , and Biocompatibility Considerations According to FDA , the purpose of the workshop is to obtain information on manufacturing , characterization , and

  • The problem: a metacognition deficit

    Updated: 2010-08-27 02:16:01
    …there’s a metacognition deficit. Very few in public life habitually step back and think about the weakness in their own thinking and what they should do to compensate… Of the problems that afflict the country, this is the underlying one. David Brooks, (“A Case of Mental Courage”, New York Times) Brooks begins with the story of how [...]

  • A Crisp View of Molecules

    Updated: 2010-08-25 23:50:47
    Molecules are more than fuzzy blobs, but that's all scientists have been able to see... until now. For a couple of decades, scientists have used tiny needles to poke at single atoms and molecules, displaying the results as fuzzy blob-like...

  • How to Learn about Everything in Belorussian

    Updated: 2010-08-25 23:29:55
    “How to Learn about Everything”, now in Belorussian translation:         (With thanks to Patricia Clausnitzer!)

  • Affirming a thing of beauty: Comments filed today support new EPA CBI policy

    Updated: 2010-08-25 15:34:05
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Today EDF joined with Earthjustice and 24 other health, labor and environmental organizations in filing comments with EPA that support its recently announced policy change restoring the public's right to know the identities of all chemicals for which health and safety data have been submitted to the agency. [...]

  • Japan, Germany, S. Korea commercialize nanotech better than U.S.

    Updated: 2010-08-24 23:25:27
    Nanodot normally focuses on longer-term nanotechnologies such as molecular manufacturing, but we do like to keep an eye on how different countries compare to each other in nanotech and technology in general. Below is an excerpt from a recent Lux Research announcement; you can read the full PDF here: U.S. Risks Losing Global Leadership in [...]

  • EPA And CDTSC Drafting MOU To Share Data

    Updated: 2010-08-24 20:50:27
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal EPA And CDTSC Drafting MOU To Share Data EPA And CDTSC Drafting MOU To Share Data Posted on August 24, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link According to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control's CDTSC website it is drafting a memorandum of understanding MOU with the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA to facilitate information exchange , collaboration , and outline a working partnership on emerging chemicals , green chemistry , and materials management . nbsp Under the new MOU , EPA and CDTSC : will

  • Australia: Nanotechnology – Nano Problem Or Time For Australian Business To Actively Manage Potential Risks?

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:14
    Source: ElectroIQ – August 16, 2010 Nanotechnology, the science of the small, is a complex and constantly evolving technology with the potential to help address many of the challenges facing the modern world. While no-one wants to curtail the potentially extraordinary benefits of this technology, past experience with “wonder products” and “wonder technologies” has taught [...]

  • An index for characterization of nanomaterials in biological systems

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:14
    Source: ICON – August 2010 In this paper, the authors propose a biological surface adsorption index to characterize the molecular interactions between chemical groups on the nanoparticle surfaces and the amino-acid residues of the proteins by quantifying the competitive adsorption of a set of small molecule probes onto the nanoparticles. The biological surface adsorption index [...]

  • Nanomaterials: One class of carbon nanotubes produces reactive oxygen species under sunlight

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:13
    Source: C&EN – August 12, 2010 Someday industry may produce large amounts of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs): Their unique physical and chemical properties make them attractive raw materials for a range of electronic and biomedical applications, such as miniaturized circuitry, diagnostic imaging, and drug delivery. Yet scientists know very little about how these nanomaterials could [...]

  • ISO Approves Iran’s Method for Nanomaterials Categorization as Int’l Standard

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:13
    Source: FARS News – August 17, 2010 TEHRAN (FNA)- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved the method suggested by Iran for categorizing and classifying nanomaterials and published it in the form of an international standard. Iran Nanotechnology Standardization Committee (ISIRI/TC229) had proposed a method entitled ‘Nanotechnology Tree’ for the categorization of various types of [...]

  • An insight on nano-Eiffel towers

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:13
    La visite des nano-tours Eiffel & An insight on nano-Eiffel towers

  • New “Nano” Product Recall Brings Safety Data and Manufacturer Accountability back on the Agenda

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:12
    Source:  Inno-News – August 02, 2010 In 2006, the alleged nanotechnology sealing product Magic Nano had been recalled by the manufacturer after more than 100 intoxications. More than four years later, the Danish authorities have ordered the market withdrawal of another similar sealing agent called NanoCover. Proper risk management could have saved the company a [...]

  • EPA nanomaterial disclosure policy submitted to OMB for review

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:12
    Source: Nanotechnology Law Report – August 05, 2010 Inside Washington’s Inside the EPA newsletter carries an article regarding the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention submitting for review a notice outlining EPA’s intention to use its existing regulatory authority under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to require that manufacturers of pesticides [...]

  • Stakeholder preferences in regulating nanotechnology

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:11
    Source: Nanowerk News – July 26, 2010 [...] Steffen Foss Hansen, a postdoc at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Environmental Engineering and NanoDTU Environment & Health, has now used Multicriteria Mapping (MCM) to study why some regulatory options – bans, moratoriums, voluntary measures, etc. – are deemed to be acceptable/unacceptable by various stakeholders [...]

  • Safe Work Australia release of two research reports on engineered nanomaterials and a nanotechnology risk assessment tool.

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:11
    Source: AZoNano – August 05, 2010 Original title: Safe Work Australia Chair, Mr Tom Phillips AM, today announced the release of two research reports on engineered nanomaterials and a nanotechnology risk assessment tool. Safe Work Australia commissioned the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to undertake a survey for the report titled Engineered Nanomaterials: investigating substitution [...]

  • China and Europe have kicked off collaboration to support risk management and improve consumer protection

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:28:07
    Source: AZoNano – June 08, 2010 (Original title: The Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine and the European Commission Joint Research Centre’s Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (JRC-IHCP) have kicked off collaboration to support risk management and improve consumer protection through new approaches in the areas of nanotechnology and alternative methods to animal testing.) [...]

  • Updated post on high-throughput atomically precise manufacturing

    Updated: 2010-08-23 21:16:33
    I’ve updated “The Physical Basis of High-Throughput Atomically Precise Manufacturing”. Not a big change, but I expanded the discussion of reliable molecular modeling of selected, highly constrained systems, along the lines discussed here: “Making vs. Modeling: A paradox of progress in nanotechnology”.

  • EPA seeks to improve TSCA data reporting; a real litmus test looms for the chemical industry

    Updated: 2010-08-20 14:23:38
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. While I was on vacation last week, EPA's proposed rule to improve chemical information reporting under its so-called Inventory Update Rule (IUR) was finally published in the Federal Register.  (I say "finally" because the proposal languished for almost 6 months over at OMB, nearly double the 90 days [...]

  • About releasing building blocks…

    Updated: 2010-08-19 02:55:34
    A reader asks a general question about mechanosynthesis — How could a device release a reactive molecule once it’s bound to a product? — and I’d like to outline why there are many answers. Mechanosynthesis is a very broad concept, and describes the operational principle of mechanisms that range from ribosomes in cells to rotary devices [...]

  • EPA Proposes Conditional Registration of Nanosilver Pesticide Product

    Updated: 2010-08-19 00:24:06
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal EPA Proposes Conditional Registration of Nanosilver Pesticide Product EPA Proposes Conditional Registration of Nanosilver Pesticide Product Posted on August 18, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On August 13, 2010, the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced that it is proposing to register conditionally a pesticide product containing nanosilver as a new active ingredient for a period of four years . nbsp According to EPA , the antimicrobial pesticide product , HeiQ AGS-20, is a silver-based product that

  • IBM makes world map 1000 times smaller than grain of sand

    Updated: 2010-08-18 09:29:40
    Forbes describes work at IBM Zurich: IBM researchers in its Zurich lab have drawn–or rather, carved–a three-dimensional map of the world that’s 22 micrometers east to west by 11 micrometers north to south. At that size, about 15 of the maps could be wrapped end to end long-ways around a strand of human hair, by our [...]

  • Compound Semiconductor Week: ISCS and IPRM 2011

    Updated: 2010-08-18 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 22 May 2011 - 26 May 2011, Berlin, Germany. Organized by VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V., Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics.

  • Factory in a box

    Updated: 2010-08-17 04:00:50
    Mobile factories that fit in a standard shipping container make replacement parts on-site, on-demand. Better and smaller systems in your neighborhood someday; military systems in Afghanistan today. John Robb sees them as part of a trend toward hyperlocal manufacturing.

  • Nanotechnology I short course

    Updated: 2010-08-17 00:00:00
    Course: 10 Jan 2011 - 14 Jan 2011, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

  • Functional Materials short course

    Updated: 2010-08-17 00:00:00
    Course: 25 Oct 2010 - 29 Oct 2010, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

  • Nanotechnology II short course

    Updated: 2010-08-17 00:00:00
    Course: 24 Jan 2011 - 28 Jan 2011, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

  • “Science court”-style software from the CIA

    Updated: 2010-08-16 23:46:22
    Longtime Foresight supporter John Gilmore writes: “I noticed a story that reminded me of something Foresight wanted to encourage in society.  Wired reports that the CIA uses decision analysis software ‘Analysis of Competing Hypotheses’, and has funded a rewritten version for shared networked analysis by many people.  But the gov’t contractors got into a hassle [...]

  • EPA Announces Availability of Nanomaterial Case Study for Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray

    Updated: 2010-08-16 20:26:52
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal EPA Announces Availability of Nanomaterial Case Study for Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray EPA Announces Availability of Nanomaterial Case Study for Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray Posted on August 16, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On August 13, 2010, the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced the availability of a draft document entitled Nanomaterial Case Study : Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray which EPA intends to serve as part of a process to help identify and prioritize

  • Life extension conference: $100 off discount code

    Updated: 2010-08-13 23:37:22
    Many of you have an interest in human longevity in general and in being healthier and living longer personally.  If we want to help develop and guide nanotech and other advanced technologies, we need to stay healthy. I am organizing a conference on this topic, October 9-10, here in the Bay Area: http://lifeextensionconference.com You will recognize some of [...]

  • Tickets for SS10 Almost Sold Out!

    Updated: 2010-08-13 22:34:12
    Only 19 hours left until the Summit kicks off, and we are almost sold out of seats! Register now, if you haven’t yet, to ensure a seat. There are also still slots available for our Meet & Mingle with the Summit Speakers event on Saturday night. For those who have registered, see you at the Hyatt [...]

  • The 7th Peptoid Summit: Progress in peptoid toolkit development

    Updated: 2010-08-13 21:59:26
    The 7th Peptoid Summit highlighted progress in design technology for one of the most promising toolkits in modular molecular systems engineering. I’ve outlined the submonomer method for peptoid synthesis as a powerful and convenient way to assemble diverse molecular components, and the recent development of crystalline peptoid nanosheets as a platform for extended atomically-precise structures. The [...]

  • CDTSC Postpones Public Workshop on State and Federal Nanomaterial Activities

    Updated: 2010-08-13 19:55:47
    Due to California’ budget issues and resulting furlough for civil service employees, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (CDTSC) has postponed its August 13, 2010, workshop on state and federal nanomaterial activities. DTSC, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are cosponsoring the workshop to discuss the results of California’ carbon nanotube (CNT) information call-in, future data call-in requests for additional nanomaterials, and federal efforts related to CNTs for nanomaterials. DTSC states that it will reschedule the workshop at a later date.

  • Bill Joy on steering the future to lower-risk

    Updated: 2010-08-11 23:46:47
    Many of you will recall Bill Joy’s famous article in Wired called Why the future doesn’t need us, where he expressed concern about various technologies including advanced nanotech. Apparently he gave an update of his views on this in his talk for TED, viewable here. An excerpt: So if we can address, use technology, [...]

  • The Eye and the Chip 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-11 00:00:00
    Conference: 13 Sep 2010 - 15 Sep 2010, Dearborn, MI, United States. Organized by Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology and Henry Ford Health System.

  • International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology(ICONN2010)

    Updated: 2010-08-11 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 24 Feb 2010 - 26 Feb 2010, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Organized by SRM University,India.

  • Can “artificial life” evolve intelligence? An update

    Updated: 2010-08-10 23:30:53
    An article in New Scientist with the optimistic title “Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence” gives an update on how two specific examples of computational artificial life is doing in terms of evolving to have more interesting behavior.  An excerpt: Brains that have been evolved with HyperNEAT have millions of connections, yet still perform a task [...]

  • Massachusetts Releases Nanotechnology Guidance Document

    Updated: 2010-08-10 06:35:08
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home State Massachusetts Releases Nanotechnology Guidance Document Massachusetts Releases Nanotechnology Guidance Document Posted on August 10, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance MOTA will post this week a Technology Guidance Document entitled Nanotechnology Considerations for Safe Development which includes recommendations intended to enhance the safety of nanotechnology . According to MOTA , it is providing the Guidance for the express purpose of assisting in the development of

  • Between conferences

    Updated: 2010-08-05 20:55:58
    Last weekend: the O’Reilly Media / Nature Publishing Group “Science Foo Camp” at Google. An amazing event, as always. I spoke at a session led by Michael Nielsen — he asked four of us to speak on Three Rules (for something); I outlined rules for broad learning about science. Later in the day I led [...]

  • Space Manufacturing Conference: Abstracts due Aug. 16

    Updated: 2010-08-04 19:44:32
    The Space Studies Institute will hold Space Manufacturing 14 on Oct. 30-31, 2010 at NASA Ames here in Silicon Valley.  Topics to be covered include: Session 1: Space Transportation Architecture Session 2: Closed Environment Life Support Systems Session 3: Robotics and Space Manufacturing Session 4: Extraterrestrial Prospecting Session 5: Engineering Materials from Non-Terrestrial Resources Session 6: Space Solar Power and Space Energy [...]

  • OMB Receives EPA Notice Concerning Pesticide Products Containing Nanoscale Materials

    Updated: 2010-08-04 19:26:05
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal OMB Receives EPA Notice Concerning Pesticide Products Containing Nanoscale Materials OMB Receives EPA Notice Concerning Pesticide Products Containing Nanoscale Materials Posted on August 4, 2010 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link According to the Office of Management and Budget OMB website , on July 30, 2010, OMB received from the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA a notice concerning Pesticide Products Containing Nanoscale Materials . rdquo No additional information regarding the notice is available on OMB's website

  • Free ‘Inside Raman’ seminars

    Updated: 2010-08-04 00:00:00
    Lecture/talk: 22 Sep 2010 - 23 Sep 2010, Millburn House, University of Warwick Campus, Coventry, United Kingdom. Organized by Dr Tong Zhang.

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