ZANG group research

department of chemistry and biochemistry SIU

The research in nanoscience and nanotechnology has been drawing more and more attention from the academia, industrial and government. The past a few years has witnessed a sharp increase in interest of research and development of nanostructured materials and nanoscale characterization and fabrication techniques. In the mean time, the federal budget on nanoscience research, so called National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), has been increased linearly since year 2000, when the Clinton administration got the NNI started.

check Nanotech is becoming the next big thing.

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For more information from the federal government and agencies, visit
• National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)
• The US Department of Energy (DOE) nanoscience research
• National Science Foundation (NSF) nanoscience research
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) nanoscience research

A lot more interests and attention from industrial giants: for some examples, visit
• IBM
• Lucent, Bell Labs
• Intel
• GE

Nanotechnology must be the next revolution for industry, just as it is boosting the economics right now: more than 100 startup nano-companies have been founded in the past a few years, for some examples, visit,
• Zyvex
• Nanosys
• Quantum Dot

For more general information about nanoscience and nanotechnology, visit,
• American Chemical Society
• Foresight Institute
• More readings

Nanotech research is also getting interests in many other countries worldwide, from the US to Europe and to China…

(updated on june 22, 2004)