Word: nanos
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...physics yield to those of quantum mechanics, in which the powerful bonds between atoms overtake the effects of gravity that rule the big world. Yet scientists have moved beyond the basic exploration of nanotech to its exploitation. The National Science Foundation foresees a $1 trillion market by 2015 for nano products, and businesses and governments around the world are rushing to cash...
...chemical process that adds "nano-whiskers" to cotton fabrics and renders them wrinkle and stain resistant explains new products from Eddie Bauer and Lee Jeans. The fabrics were developed by Nano-Tex, a Greensboro, N.C., company that is 51% owned by Burlington Industries, a textile firm that is struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. Nano-Tex has also developed active-wear fabrics that disperse and dry sweat. Later this year, it will launch a line, destined for socks, underwear and T shirts, that will channel body odors through the structure of the fibers...
...company says, because of the size of its nitinol crystals, not the wire or motion. MacGregor compares his product to $40-to-$100 small motors made by potential competitor RMB, of Biel-Bienne, Switzerland. Hasbro, a major investor in MacGregor's start-up, expects to deliver its first nano-powered toys by Christmas 2003. NanoMuscle's challenge, like InMat's, will be to stay afloat long enough to sign companies on as clients...
...that within three years, Nantero can bring to market chips with NRAM that can store 10 times as much data as a silicon chip the same size while operating faster and with less heat. "They're not saying much publicly about their approach," says Steven Glapa, president of the nano-consulting firm In Realis, "but what they're promising sounds pretty breathtaking...
Nanotubes could be the first commodity in the nanotech economy. Dozens of companies around the world already pump out mounds of the stuff--affectionately called soot--and sell it to some of the world's largest companies and labs for research: IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung and NEC. Nano-Lab, in Brighton, Mass., is one of the few nanotech companies turning a profit. It sold $200,000 worth of made-to-order nanotubes in 2001 and is on track to more than double that amount this year. Last week HP researchers unveiled a way of manufacturing molecular-scale circuitry that will...