National Nanotechnology Initiative : assessment and recommendations / Jerrod W. Kleike, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kleike, Jerrod W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Nanotechnology Initiative (U.S.)--Evaluation.

National Nanotechnology Initiative (U.S.).

Nanotechnology--Government policy--United States.

Nanotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nanotechnology has emerged in the last decades of the 20th century with the development of new enabling technologies for imaging, manipulating, and stimulating matter at the atomic scale. The frontier of nanotechnology research and development (R & D) encompasses a broad range of science and engineering activities directed toward understanding and creating improved materials, devices, and systems that exploit the properties of matter that emerge at the nanoscale. The results promise benefits that will shift paradigms in biomedicine (e.g. imaging, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention); energy (e.g., conversion and storage); electronics (e.g. computing and displays); manufacturing; environmental remediation; and, many other categories of products and applications.

Contents:

""NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE: ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS ""; ""NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE: ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE ""; ""UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. HEARING OF: THE NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008, TESTIMONY OF ANDREW D. MAYNARD* ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""UNDERPINNING SUSTAINABLE NANOTECHNOLOGIES ""; ""The Promise of Nanotechnology ""; ""Unconventional Behavior ""; ""The Need for Foresight ""; ""Avoiding Harm""; ""A New Mindset for a New Technology ""

""Leadership """"TAKING ACTION ""; ""Risk Research Strategy ""; ""Funding for Environment, Safety and Health Research""; ""Leadership for Risk Research ""; ""Transparency""; ""Public-Private Partnerships""; ""CONCLUSIONS ""; "" ANNEX A. ASSESSMENT OF U.S. GOVERNMENT NANOTECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND HEALTH RESEARCH FOR 2006 ""; ""1. Assessment of Research Listed in the 2008 NNI Nanotechnology Risk Research Strategy24 ""; ""2. A Broader Assessment of U.S. Federally-Funded Risk-Relevant Research for 2006 ""; ""3. Comparison with European Risk Research Investments""

""4. Definitions of Research Relevance""""ANNEX B. NNI-IDENTIFIED NANOTECHNOLOGY RISK-RESEARCH, LISTED BY RELEVANCE28 ""; ""ENDNOTES ""; ""THE NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE: SECOND ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY ADVISORY PANEL*""; "" ABOUT THE PRESIDENT�S COUNCIL OF ADVISORS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ""; "" ABOUT THE NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY ADVISORY PANEL ""; ""ABOUT THIS REPORT ""; ""EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT�S COUNCIL OF ADVISORS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20502 ""

""PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL OF ADVISORS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY """"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""Nanotechnology""; ""II. PROGRESS AND STATUS: LEADING CHANGES SINCE 2005 ""; ""Principal Findings ""; ""Growing Investment ""; ""Measuring Progress ""; ""Publications and Citations ""; ""Ideas and Inventions ""; ""Managing Resources and Engaging Stakeholders ""; ""Industry Collaboration ""; ""Global Coordination ""; ""Update of the NNI Strategic Plan ""; ""III. APPLICATIONS: FOSTERING PRESENT COMMERCIALIZATION AND EMERGING INNOVATION""; ""Principal Findings ""

""Context of Commercialization """"Case Studies ""; ""Consumer Products ""; ""Biomedicine ""; ""Energy ""; ""Electronics ""; ""Platform Technology ""; ""IV. IMPLICATIONS: ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ETHICS ISSUES RESPONSIBLY ""; ""Principal Findings ""; ""Context of and Perspective on EHS Considerations ""; ""FEDERAL EHS ACTIVITIES ""; ""Environment ""; ""Health ""; ""Safety ""; ""Ethics ""; ""Managing and Coordinating Implications Research ""; "" V. RECOMMENDATIONS: SUSTAINING LEADERSHIP THROUGH COORDINATION, STRATEGY, COMMUNICATION ""

""1. Infrastructure, Management, and Coordination ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61761-822-5

OCLC:

923654487