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Nanotechnology Progress Articles

Between 2002 and 2007 I wrote a number of articles for the Foresight Update newsletter describing research advances in nanotechnology. As I wrote in introducing this series of articles, they are focused on developments that I considered steps along various paths that might lead toward molecular manufacturing and nanofactories. These articles are archived on the web sites of the Foresight Institute and the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing.

• 2002 A Better DNA Motor; Building Complexes of Proteins; Nanofabrication of metal nanostructures; Designing a working monomolecular machine; Self-assembled nanotube scaffolding; Another DNA nanomotor; Using DNA to program the assembly of nanoscale building blocks
• 2003 Learning to control nature's molecular machinery; Naturally occurring diamondoid building blocks; Building metallic circuits with DNA; Using an STM to fabricate a molecule
• 2004 "New protein created from scratch" and "Yet another DNA nanomachine: A hand" are available on page 12 of the PDF (7.3 MB) of Foresight Update 54
• 2005 "Molecular transistor on silicon surface", "Practical production of carbon nanotube sheets", and "Molecular motors transport macroscopic cargo" are available on pages 16-17 of the PDF (3.8 MB) of Foresight Update 55
• 2006 "Treatment of cancer with RNA nanotechnology", "Imaging proteins in real time to atomic precision", and "New rigid, rapidly assembled DNA building blocks" are available on pages 17-18 of the PDF (3.2 MB) of Foresight Update 56; "Two-Dimensional DNA Nanostructures of Arbitrary Shape" and "Coupled Mechanical Motion in a Molecular Machine" are available on pages 12 and 15 of the PDF (2.7 MB) of Foresight Update 57
• 2007 Rolling and carrying molecules across surfaces: A nanocar and a molecule carrier

Book Reviews and Other Nanotechnology Articles

Here is a list of links to book reviews and other articles related to nanotechnology that I wrote for Foresight Update between 1997 and 2007.

• 1997. A brief overview of lecture track two of the Fifth Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
• 1998. Book review of Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance, edited by BC Crandall.
• 1998. Room-Temperature Molecular Transistor Uses Single Carbon Nanotube
• 1998. A book review co-written with Lew Phelps of The First Immortal by James L. Halperin
• 1999 A report of talks presented at the Seventh Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology and a report on the Pre-Conference Tutorial: Foundations of Nanotechnology.
• 2000 A book review of Biological Molecules in Nanotechnology: The Convergence of Biotechnology, Polymer Chemistry and Materials Science, editors: Stephen C. Lee and Lynn M. Savage
• 2000 Eighth Foresight Conference Shows Nanotech 'Coming Into Its Own'
• 2003 Regulating Nanotechnology: Public education and rational discussion needed
• 2003 Surviving the Time Bombs: Why nanotechnology may be our only hope, a review of the book Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World, by Douglas Mulhall
• 2005 A book review of Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life, by Richard A. L. Jones, on pages 10-11 of the PDF (3.8 MB) of Foresight Update 55
• 2006 A book review of Nano-Hype: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz, by David M. Berube, on pages 11-12 of the PDF (3.2 MB) of Foresight Update 56
• 2006 A book review of Nanotechnology Applications and Markets, by Lawrence Gasman, on pages 11 and 17 of the PDF (2.7 MB) of Foresight Update 57
• 2007 A book review of Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology, by J. Storrs Hall
• 2007 A book review of Military Nanotechnology: Potential applications and preventive arms control, by Jürgen Altmann

News Digest and Nanodot Blog

I served as editor or the Foresight Update for issues 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 (7.3 MB PDF), and 58. I have also been editor of the Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest since January 24, 2007. I have also posted regularly on Foresight's nanotechnology blog Nanodot from July 2002 through November 2003 and since February 2008. My Nanodot posts and my work as editor of the Weekly News Digest have helped me to keep in touch with what is happening in nanotechnology—from near term applications to nanoscience, medicine, energy, and computing, to developments in core technologies that might lead to advanced nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing. Here are a few of my Nanodot posts from earlier this year that point to promising steps toward advanced nanotechnology:

• Feb. 8, 2008 DNA building blocks that change shape provide new tool for nanotechnology
• Feb. 11, 2008 Precisely controlled electron beam provides top-down approach to molecular nanotechnology
• Feb. 21, 2008 Proteins covalently attached to carbon nanotube tips provide new tool for nanotechnology
• Mar. 18, 2008 Simpler way of building three-dimensional structures using DNA nanotechnology
• Mar. 25, 2008 Major nanotechnology milestone: protein catalysts designed for non-natural chemical reactions
• Apr. 10, 2008 Structural DNA nanotechnology builds dodecahedron from three-legged building blocks
• Apr. 14, 2008 Automated molecular evolution as a tool for nanotechnology

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