Researchers from Purdue University are using single nanowires to create fully-transparent transistors and circuits for low-cost, flexible color screens for consumer electronics, displays for car windshields and even “electronic” paper. The transparent transistors are assembled from single "nanowires" put onto glass or thin films of flexible plastic.

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.”

Cornell University's NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) has been at the forefront of nanotechnology for 30 years. To commemorate, CNF will hold its next event June 14, at Cornell's campus in Ithica, NY. CNF serves over 700 users a year, and has been instrumental in enabling, developing, and propagating the benefits of nanotechnology. The Future of Nanotechnology celebrates CNF's past contributions, and looks at the shape of things to come.