First nanorobot device design paper ever published in a peer-reviewed, mainstream medical journal.

Physics News - current densities hundreds of times greater than that of common metals; also: heat conductivity almost as high as that of diamond; superconductivity in nanotube ropes; nanotube/buckyball peapods; nanotubes as atomic force microscope probes.

IBM News - IBM scientists have developed a breakthrough transistor technology by building the world's first array of transistors out of carbon nanotubes using a new technique called "constructive destruction".

Far Eastern Economic Review - Nanotechnology has long had the potential to revolutionize a host of industries. Now it's on the threshold of having real-world applications.

a transcript of the classic talk given by Richard Feynman at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech.

Major Milestone: scientists at the University of Berlin use a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to manipulate single molecules to perform a complete chemical reaction.

HP Labs scientists have created the first molecular-based logic gate.

MSNBC: Technology on the Frontier - Virtual reality technology enables microscopic probing

About.com - The arrangement of atoms into cylindrical nanocrystals is a stable phase for numerous elements. The inert nature of boron nitride and tungsten disulfide nanotubes makes them particularly durable molecular components for NEMS.

Transistors three atoms thick could boost chip speeds sixfold in five years.

Introduces the basic concepts, looks at the promise that this new technology holds, and describes the fundamental questions on how to achieve the proper results.

Chembytes e-zine - Overview of nanotechnology: yesterday and today.

Surveys recent works within the field.

BusinessWeek Online - excellent article on which companies are doing what in nanotechnology research and applications.

PhysicsWeb - A host of novel applications and new physics could be unleashed as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) shrink towards the nanoscale (significant useful technical detail)

Technology Review - IBM researchers develop a technique for growing nanocrystals which yield perfectly aligned, dense groves of single-wall nanotubes, and controls exactly where the crystals are deposited.

Technology Research News - ory. Researchers at Drexel University have discovered giant nanotubes in the pores of glassy carbon, an industrial material. These graphite polyhedral crystals range up to several orders of magnitude larger than their nanometer-wide cousins, and come in a wide variety of shapes.

Ultra Precise Nanometer-scale 3D Production Technology used to make world's smallest wineglass

New Scientist - Russian physicist Tatiana Makarova heated and compressed buckyballs to create an at-room-temperature magnetic sheet.

EETimes - Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research is close to developing the first single-electron tunneling transistor capable of operating at room temperature.

Nanotechnology from science fiction to fact

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and collaborators at Tsinghua University in Beijing have created a simplified method for making long, continuous, hair-like strands of carbon nanotubes that are as much as eight inches in length.

Latest nanotechnology news items from around the globe.

Scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have created organic transistors with a single-molecule channel length.

Cornell Magazine OnLine - The Nanobiotechnology Center at Cornell University, and what their interdisciplinary group is up to.

It's a small, small, small, small world by Ralph C. Merkle. This is an extended web version of the article published in the Feb/Mar 1997 issue of MIT Technology Review. This version has greater technical detail and embedded links

Space Daily - using nanotubes to construct the cable for a space elevator

Scientific American - Nano-copter, Nano-arm, Nano-hand, and Nano-box

MNT, being a new, highly interdisciplinary field with revolutionary implications, is bound to attract more than its fair share of bogosity. Short paper by K Eric Drexler.

Why Files - Nanobelts join nanotubes in the world of nanotechnology.

News about nanotechnology, collected from various sources on the web.

The Zettl Research Group create tiny frictionless bearings and springs out of nested multi-walled carbon nanotubes.

Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have succeeded in fabricating the smallest single-walled carbon nanotube in the world, with a diameter of only 0.4 nanometers. (Standard nanotubes are 1.3 nm).