Sites with many links

• The Foresight Institute
• KurzweilAI.net
• The National Nanotechnology Initiative
• NSF nanotechnology database
• Sean Morgan's nanotechnology page.
• Nanotechnology Industries
• UCLA's chemistry page has many links to chemistry-related topics.
• The NanoLink list of nanotechnology web sites.
• NAS nanotechnology resource listing

Groups focused on nanotechnology

• The Foresight Institute. Motto: Preparing for future technologies. A nonprofit organization, the Foresight Institute has played a pivotal role in educating both the general public and the research community about the potential impact of nanotechnology. address: Foresight Institute, Box 61058, Palo Alto CA 94306 USA; phone: 415-324-2490; fax: 415-324-2497; e-mail: inform@foresight.org; WWW: http://www.foresight.org.
• The Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a nonprofit foundation formed to carry out research aimed at developing molecular manufacturing.
• The National Nanotechnology Initiative
• Molecular Manufacturing Enterprises, Incorporated (MMEI) was founded to help accelerate advancements in the field of nanotechnology. They provide seed capital and other support to those developing key advances.
• The Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Systems Division (NAS) at NASA Ames Research Center, in partnership with the Ames computational chemistry branch and others, is developing a substantial capability in computational molecular nanotechnology, and funded a grant program in the field. An example of their work is a computer analysis of molecular gears, which was reported by (among others) Scientific American.
• The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University is devoted to nurturing science and technology at the nanometer scale.
• The Molecular Manufacturing Shortcut Group (MMSG) is a chapter of the National Space Society (NSS). MMSG's motto: promote the development of nanotechnology as a means to facilitate the settlement of space. NSS has a position paper on molecular nanotechnology

Other pages

• The House Science Committee, Subcommittee on Basic Research, held hearings on nanotechnology on June 22nd, 1999. Testimony was heard from Eugene Wong (NSF), Paul McWhorter (Sandia), Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley (Rice), and Ralph Merkle.
• NSF is funding research in nanotechnology. Neal Lane, the Director of NSF, said: "If I were asked for an area of science and engineering that will most likely produce the breakthroughs of tomorrow, I would point to nanoscale science and engineering, often called simply "nanotechnology"." NSF has sponsored a web page on nanotechnology with links to major research centers, funding agencies, reports, books, etc.
• James Gimzewski (formerly at IBM Zurich) made the world's smallest abacus as well as positioned individual molecules at room temperature.
• The Rice University Nanotechnology Initiative outlines the efforts at Rice guided by Richard Smalley.
• The Laboratory for Molecular Robotics at USC is run by Aristides Requicha and is investigating the precise manipulation of atoms and molecules.
• The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts is interested in revolutionary new ideas that "leap-frog" the evolution of current aerospace systems in a 10-40 year time horizon.
• Wilson Ho and his group show their atomically resolved and precise work in pictures.
• Charles Lieber's group at Harvard.
• Scanning tunneling microscopy at IBM Almaden includes images of several structures built by positioning individual atoms.
• The Materials and Process Simulation Center at Caltech, run by Bill Goddard, has computationally modeled a broad range of structures, including those relevant to the development of nanotechnology. For example, Charles Musgrave and Jason Perry, then with Goddard's group, used ab initio quantum chemistry to analyze a molecular tool which should be useful in the synthesis of diamondoid structures (Theoretical studies of a hydrogen abstraction tool for nanotechnology, Musgrave et. al., Nanotechnology 2 (1991) pages 187-195).
• Scientific American has a web page on molecular machines.
• NRL (Naval Research Laboratory) has several groups pursuing various aspects of nanotechnology. The Chemistry Division (among others) pursues research in nanostructures and nanofabrication.
• Ned Seeman's lab is working on nanotechnological applications of DNA, including (for example) a truncated octahedron. The Stewart platform, a well known positional device, is basically an octahedron six of whose struts can be adjusted in length. While DNA is not as stiff as might be desired for molecular robotics applications, the ability to synthesize an octahedral structure suggests that the self assembly of a simple positional device is possible.
• Links to information about diamond CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition).
• An Alpha release of Carol Shaw's Molecular Assembly Sequence Software (MASS) for the Macintosh.
• Ralph C. Merkle's talk on the need for continued nanotechnology research at the Stanford Spiritual Robots Symposium.
• Ralph C. Merkle's brief video introduction to nanotechnology (from his appearance on Big Thinkers).
• Some constants, conversion factors, etc. that are useful in nanotechnology.
• Geoff Leach's nano directory with information on Crystal Clear, a crystal editor with a graphical user interface.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Virtual Reality Nanomanipulator Project.
• A group at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) is modeling molecular components.
• Some reactions to nanotechnology from the technical community.
• RAND has issued a report on The Potential of Nanotechnology for Molecular Manufacturing
• Nanotechnology in manufacturing by John Walker, part of a talk he gave in 1990 at the Autodesk technology forum.
• NIST has an interest in nanomanufacturing of atom-based standards.
• Veeco and Omicron (to name but two) make Scanning Probe Microscopes. A Practical Guide to Scanning Probe Microscopy
• A macroscopic modular reconfigurable robot has been designed modeled and a prototype built at Stanford.
• HotWired has a page of scenarios about the future, including some speculative scenarios about nanotechnology.
• A new version of the planetary gear illustrated in Nanosystems on pages 311 and 312.
• MITRE has a web page on nanoelectronics and nanocomputing.
• Reversible computing is also an important issue if we are to continue improving computer performance. Molecular manufacturing will let us put a very large number of logic elements into a very small volume, so if we are to avoid creating a great deal of heat we'll need to keep the energy dissipation per logic operation very low indeed!
• Visual images of some proposed molecular machines.
• The slides for some talks on nanotechnology are available.
  Nanocomputer Dream Team - Building the world's first Nanoscale Supercomputer
• Andres Group (Nanocluster Synthesis & Cluster-Assembled Materials), Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
• Atom Sciences, Inc. - Elemental surface analyses and imaging with submicron resolution
• ATOMA - Software for Nanotechnology
• Bucky News Service - Abstracts of recent papers on Fullerene Research
• Buckyball Home Page, Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• California Molecular Electronics Corporation (CALMEC)
• Center for Molecular Design, Institute for Biomedical Computing, Washington University in St. Louis
• Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University
• Centre for Quantum Computation, University of Oxford
• Centre for Self-Organising Molecular Systems (SOMS Centre)
• EMBnet: European Molecular Biology Network
• Energenius Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology (ECAN), University of Toronto
• ExPASy Molecular Biology Server
• Folding@home: from genome to structure
• Foresight Institute
• Fullerene Group
• IBM Almaden Research Center Visualization Lab
• Information Mechanics Group at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
• Information Theory and Molecular Recognition (Schneider Lab, NCI Laboratory of Mathematical Biology)
• Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
• Institute of Biophysics & Center Interdipartimental on Biophysical-chemical and
• Biomedical Technologies (IBF & CITBB)
• Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
• Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan
• Institute of Physics Publishing
• International Society for Molecular Electronics and BioComputing (ISMEBC)
  Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, University Of Southern California
• Laboratory of Mathematical Biology, National Cancer Institute
• Laboratory of Supramolecular Photonics , Hunter College of CUNY
• Lightyear Technologies Inc.
• Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC), The Beckman Institute at Caltech
• Michigan Molecular Institute
• Microfabrication Applications Lab (MAL), University of Illinois at Chicago
• Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures, The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, UIUC)
• Molecular Dynamics
• Molecular Manufacturing Enterprises Incorporated (MMEI)
• Molecular Manufacturing Shortcut Group, National Space Society
• Molecular Modelling Group, at the University of Veszprem, Hungary
• Molecular Neuroscience Program at Caltech
• Molecular Structure Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  Molecular Simulations Inc.
• Nano Letters: American Chemical Society Publication
• Nanodot: News and Discussion of Coming Technologies
• Nanoelectronics Laboratory (NANOLAB) at University of Cincinnati
• NanoLab, Inc.
• NanoLine at Cornell University
• Nanomanipulator Project, Department of Computer Science at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Nanomechanics LLC
• Nanomedicine, by Robert A. Freitas Jr., Foresight Institute Nanomedicine page
• Nanometer Pattern Generation System
• NanoPowders Industries
• Nanoscale Physics, Purdue University
• NanoSource
• NanoStructures Laboratory (NSL) at MIT (formerly Submicron Structures Laboratory)
• NanoStructures Laboratory (NSL) at Princeton University
• Nanotechnik - Piezo Motors, Micro Positioner, Micro Manipulator, Scanning Tunneling Microscope
• Nanotechnology, Ralph C. Merkle's nanotechnology web site
• Nanotechnology Chemical & Engineering News
• Nanotechnology Industries
• NanoTechnology Magazine
• Nanotechnology on the WWW (maintained by Sean Morgan)
• Nanothinc Corporation
• NanoTools: The Homebrew STM Page
• NASA-JSC Area Nanotechnology Study Group
• National Institutes of Health - Molecular Biology Databases
• National Institutes of Health - Molecular Modeling Home Page
• National Nanofabrication Facility at Cornell University
• National Nanofabrication Users' Network (NanoNet Information Central)
• National Nanofabrication Users' Network at Penn State University
• National Nanofabrication Users' Network at University of California, Santa Barbara
• Purdue NanoTechnology Initiative (NTI)
• Rice Quantum Institute (RQI)
• Solid State Spectroscopy at the Institute of Materials Physics of the University of Wien
• Stanford NanoFabrication Facility
• Technology Review - Nanotech + More
• Tsukada Group, Solid State Physics
• Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology
• Zyvex