Project Press Releases
- December 9, 2007pdfThe Nanotech Future: A Conversation with Mihail RocoDr. Roco is the key architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)—America’s $8 billion investment in the science and engineering research expected to revolutionize technology and industry.
- December 3, 2007pdfWell-known Washington Environmental Editor and Reporter Joins Nanotech ProjectColin Finan, former Managing Editor of Environmental Policy Alert and Associate Editor of InsideEPA.com, is the new Public Affairs and Policy Associate at the Wilson Center’s Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. As a journalist covering environment and energy issues, Finan regularly reported on nanotechnology regulatory and research topics for Inside Washington Publishers (IWP). With over 70 editors and reporters, IWP is a prominent source of behind-the-scenes coverage of federal policy in environment, defense, health care, trade and energy matters.
- November 7, 2007pdfNew Blog Looks at Potential Nanotechnology RisksAre nanoparticles safe to breathe? Do carbon nanotubes behave like asbestos? What does the public think about nanotechnology’s risk-benefit trade-offs?
You can find the answers to these questions and more in an exciting new blog hosted by SAFENANO (See: www.community.safenano.org/blogs). Andrew D. Maynard, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies chief scientist, will be a regular contributor to the blog and will explore the many facets of nanotechnology’s benefits and risks.
- October 31, 2007pdfU.S. Government Delays Nanotechnology Safety MeasuresWant to buy a bag of carbon nanotubes—in quantities from a few grams to hundreds of kilograms (100 kilograms = approximately 220 pounds)? With a credit card and Internet access, you can. But is the U.S. government doing enough to ensure the safety of these materials and the hundreds of other nanotechnology commercial and consumer products currently on the market?
- October 31, 2007pdfU.S. Government Delays Nanotechnology Safety MeasuresWant to buy a bag of carbon nanotubes—in quantities from a few grams to hundreds of kilograms? With a credit card and Internet access, you can. But is the U.S. government doing enough to ensure the safety of these materials and the hundreds of other nanotechnology commercial and consumer products currently on the market?
- October 22, 2007pdfThe Twinkie Guide to NanotechnologyThe Twinkie Guide to Nanotechnology is an entertaining new video featuring scientist Andrew Maynard which mixes the iconic American snack cake with humor to unlock the mysteries of nanotechnology. In this 25-minute short Maynard serves up the complexities of nanoscience in bite-size morsels.
- October 17, 2007pdfProject on Emerging Nanotechnologies and Consumers Union Collaborate on "ConsumersTalkNano"The Wilson Center’s Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, in collaboration with Consumers Union—publishers of Consumer Reports magazine and Consumer Reports Online—announces a major effort to reach out to the American public and engage them in an important online conversation about the possible risks and benefits of nanotechnology and consumer products.
- October 11, 2007pdfNanoparticle Exposures Happen, Says ExpertSome nanotechnology fanciers suggest that, like proverbial birds of a feather, engineered nanoscale materials will flock – or clump – together. This tendency, they maintain, should reduce or eliminate risks as nanotechnology manufacturing increases and the number of nanotechnology-enabled products grows.
- October 2, 2007pdfNanotechnology: Not Just for GeeksSay “nanotechnology,” and geeks imagine iPhones, laptops and flash drives. But more than 60 percent of the 580 products in a newly updated inventory of nanotechnology consumer products are such “un-geeky” items as tennis racquets, clothing, and health products.
- September 25, 2007pdfPoll Reveals Public Awareness of Nanotech Stuck at Low LevelNational survey findings released today indicate that Americans’ awareness of nanotechnology remains low. Popular awareness is nearly as small as the tiny nanoscale materials and nano-enabled devices and products now flowing onto the market from this rapidly progressing technology that experts believe will usher in a new industrial revolution.
