Nanotechnology Resources

Nanotechnology is the study of the the creation of complex objects by atomic or molecular assembly. First envisioned by the noble prize winning physicist, Richard P. Feynman, in a talk There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom it was pushed into the public consciousness by K. Eric Drexler's  Engines of Creation

Books and Other Sources for Nanotechnology

• Engines of Creation,
  K. Eric Drexler, 1986, Doubleday
• Nanosystems,
  K. Eric Drexler, 1992, Wiley Interscience,
• Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculation on Global Abundance,
  Editor: B.C. Crandall, 1996, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
• Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives; Papers from the First Foresight Conference on Nanotechnology
  Editors: B.C. Crandal and James Lewis, 1992, MIT Press
• Prospects in Nanotechnology: Toward Molecular Manufacturing,
  Proceedings of the First General Conference on Nanotechnology: Development, Applications, and Opportunities. November 11-14, 1992, Palo Alto, California
  Eds: Markus Krummenacker and James Lewis,
  1995, John Wiley & Sons, New York
• Nano,
  Ed Regis, 1995, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA
• Nanomedicine
  Robert A. Freitas, Jr.
• Nanotechnology Playhouse: Building Machines from Atoms,
  Christopher Lampton, 1993, The Waite Group, Corte Madera, CA
  An excellent simple introduction to nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology Pages of Merit

• Ralph Merkle Home Page
• Max More Home Page and the Extropy Institute
• Tom Morrow Home Page (missing?)
• Dave Krieger Home Page
• Romana Machado Home Page
• York University's Nanotechnology Pages
• Los Angeles Nano Technology Study Group Pages
• Molecular Nanotechnology References by Sean Morgan
• Molecular Nanotechnology Design Tools by Robert Bradbury
• Nanoscale Friction by Robert Bradbury

Nanotech Points of Interest

• Consequences of Molecular Manufacturing, Nanosystems, K. Eric Drexler, 1992
• Graphs from Subhash Saini Article:
• Figure 1: Pentaflops Computing and Computational Nanotechnology
• Supercomputer Performance
• Figure 2: Computer Clocks
• Figure 3: Linpack Benchmark Evolution
• Figure 5: Future Trends in Seminconductor Manufacturing
• Figure 6: NT LDR
• Pictures from JR Tucker, C Waing, T-C Shen Article:
• Actuator Motor
• Silicon Tip 1
• Silicon Tip with caption

Companies

• Zyvex (www.zyvex.com), Richardson, TX
• Nanotex (www.nanotex.com), Greensboro, NC
• Nanotechnologies (nanoscale.com), Austin TX
• Nanogram (www.nanogram.com), Fremont, CA