Nanotechnology Industries emerge within Health, Sports, Food, Electronics, Consumer Goods, and Paint.


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Nanotechnology is the realm of industry's tiniest stage. A measure of length, a nanometer is one billionth of a meter.  This is about 8 to 10 hydrogen atoms in a row. At nano scales, the boundaries among biology, chemistry, physics, and electronics lose much of their meaning. The sciences start to merge with each other. 

Nanotechnology has begun to infiltrate several industries. The new methods of working with the very, very small is creating a broad range of emerging businesses and markets - from more powerful computers to more efficient and effective drug delivery systems in the medical field.

This trend is expected to continue over the next several years, as technologies that were yesterday's research and development projects are being replaced with market entries for new and better products and services.

Overall, nanoenabled products are expected to grow at an annual growth rate of close to 50% - through the next several years...

Here are some of the industrial segments and products...

Computers / Semiconductors
-Organic Semiconductors,
-CMOS Sensors

Computer Storage Media
-Magnetic Head
-Optical Pickup
-AFM-based Memory
-CNT-based Memory
-Molecular Memory

Monitors / Display
-Photonic FED
-Organic Electrolumenescents
-Electronic Paper

Optics / Photonics
-Photonic Crystal Fiber
-Optical Waveguides
-Optoelectronic IC

Energy
-Fuel Cells
-Li-ion Batteries
-Electric Double-Layer Capacitor
-Microcrystalline Thin Film
-Solar Cells
-Dye-sensitized Solar Sells

Biotech / Health
-Drug Delivery Systems
-Immunochromatography
-Regenerative Medicine
-Biosensors
-Nanobubble Generators
-Nano-cosmetics
-Nano-textiles 

In 2007, nanotechnologies produced sales worth $292 billion. Some 1,200 nano startups have emerged around the world, with more than 50% of them in the United States. Remember, nano is not a single industry but a scale of engineering / manufacturing.  Instead of one new thing, like the Internet, nano offers new possibilities for thousands of materials that already exist.

In the health sciences, researchers are working on customized treatments, such as nanoparticles built to match the unique genetic profile of a patient's cancer cells -- and programmed to seek out and destroy them. Hundreds of these therapies are in the works. Most will fail. But if even a handful succeed, they could change medicine.

Also in the medical field, diagnostic machines with components built at the nano scale will allow doctors to carry pint-size laboratories in their briefcases. In the safety industry, nano sensors will scour airports and post offices for anthrax and sarin. And in computing, new computer memories composed of nanoparticles could conceivably pack the digital contents of the Library of Congress into a machine the size of man's wallet.
 
Consumers will encounter nanotechnology in the form of nick-proof trims on Hummers, Wilson tennis racquets with extra pop, even golf balls designed to fly straight. This year (2006) Korea's Samsung Group plans to produce TV displays featuring the most prominent building blocks of the Nano Age -- carbon nanotubes. If successful, these screens could be lighter, cheaper, brighter, and more energy-efficient than today's models. The technology would spread quickly from TVs to computer screens, even electronic billboards.

Worldwide, private funding Venture capitalists have invested $1 billion in nano companies since 2005.  Even larger, government funding is up to almost $5 billion annually, nearly equally divided among Asia, Europe, and North America. Research grants are being funded for university labs, and new high tech nano corridors are appearing (Albany, NY; Shanghai, China, and Fukuoka, Japan).

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