NanoScienceWorks

A group of international researchers led by a team from Ohio University is exploring new frontiers in quantum optics, and in the process may have peeked through Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

Sergey E. Lyshevski (Rochester Institute of Technology) discusses the core science and future trends in molecular electronics (or nanoscale electronics). His discussion also includes a look at prospects for how this emerging field will help engineers devise and implement novel high-performance devices at the atomic and molecular levels, as well as help to improve yields for electronics fabrication.

The Russian Government plans to invest $7.7 billion (US) into nanoscience research in the next 8 years, and to create a state council to encourage government/private sector collaboration, say reports from Russian Press Agency RIA Novosti. Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov called the government’s nanotechnology investment "very significant,” adding, "We are on the threshold of a real nano revolution, capable of overturning all our ideas on life.”