General Nanotechnology Stuff

• National Nanotechnology Initiative
  
• Nanotechweb.org
  
• Nanotechnology Now
  
• British Institute of Nanotechnology
  
• Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
• The Foresight Institute
  
• Mitre: The Nanoelectronics and Nanocomputing Home Page(this site is out dated)
  
• Erik Victor's Nanotechnology & Space Image Bank
• Maxwells Demon & Perpetual Motion Machines (UC Irvine, Chemistry)
• Powers of 10
• University of Virginia Virtual Lab
  

Journals and Articles

• IBM Journal of Research and Development - and Nanotechnology Defined
  
• Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology
  
• The Once and Future Nanomachine, Biology outmatches futurists' most elaborate fantasies for molecular robots
  By George M. Whitesides
  
• Scientific American Nanotechnology Issue
  
• Why the future doesn't need us., article in Wired by Bill Joy, Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
  
• It's a small, small, small, small world, article by Ralph C. Merkle
• K. Erik Drexler, NanoSystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation, Wiley, 1998.
  Chapter 1 and chapter 2 (Classical Magnitudes and Scaling Laws) are available on line.
  

Some News - see this page for commentaries and summaries of these articles

• Physicists build world's smallest motor using nanotubes and etched silicon - July 23, 2003
  
• Research Areas in Nanotechnology
  
• Quantum Will be "Normal" State - from EE Times - Jan 3, 2001
  
• IBM scientists build world's smallest operating computing circuits -Oct. 24, 2002
  
• IBM's Test-Tube Quantum Computer Makes History - Dec. 19, 2001 and picture file
  
• Bell Labs to Collaborate on Flexible Displays - Nov. 11, 2002
  
• Nanotech: It's Not Easy Being Green - July 28, 2003
  
• Little Big Science - September 16, 2001
  
• New DNA Computer Functions sans Fuel - February 25, 2003
  
• Researchers Put Rogue Proteins to Work Assembling Nanowires - April 01, 2003
  
• Germ-killing joint implants - July 9, 2003
  
• Nanocontainers Deliver Drugs Directly to Cells - April 28, 2003
  

Specific Nanotechnology Techniques

• Science of Spectroscopy: Microscopy
  
• Light Emitting Diodes
  
• How Atomic Force Microscopy Works
  
• U.S. Dept. of Energy: National Center for Photovoltaics
  
• Graetzel (Photovoltaic) Cell Papers
  
• Mie Scattering - Optics of a water drop
  
• Optical Tweezers (Prentiss Group)
  
• Optical Tweezers (Block Group)

General Resources

• Physics Web: News, Jobs, and Resources
  
• LORA (Library Online Resourse Access) journals and databases
  
• How Stuff Works
  
• Google search engine
• Wikipedia
• Mineral Database exellent resource, included stereo rotating crystal structures!
  

Courses

• Rice University Nanonet
  
• Rice University: Nanostructures and Nanotechnology II
  
• University of Washington Nanotechnology Course
  
• Economics of the Solar Cell (Missouri-Rolla Energy Course)
  

Companies

• Zyvex "assembling tomorrow"
  
  Molecular Assembly Project Zyvex was founded to become the world's leading supplier of tools products and services that enable adaptable, affordable, and molecularly precise manufacturing. Zyvex has been developing technology that will eventually lead to a Molecular Assembler technology. The Zyvex definition of a Molecular Assembler is "a user-controlled fabrication tool capable of creating molecularly precise structures with 3-dimensional capability in an economically viable manner."