Nanotechnology Research – Initiatives, Networks & Associations

The mission of the Tennessee Nanotech Alliance (TNA) is to create a collaborative effort across the State of Tennessee to identify the emerging opportunities and address the challenges of nanotechnology.

The National Program for Tera-level Nanodevices was launched as part of the 21st Century Frontier R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2000, aiming to develop ultra fast, highly integrated, and ultra low-power nano devices to overcome the limits of current semiconductor technologies.

Terasem Movement is a not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness.

The Texas Nanotechnology Initiative is dedicated to establishing Texas as a world leader in the discovery, development, and commercialization of nanotechnology. A consortium of Texas-based universities, industry leaders, investors, and government officials fosters communication, collaboration, and the sharing of resources.

The goal of the Texas Nanotechnology Workforce Development Initiative (NWDI) is to serve as a model for community colleges, universities, and anotechnology companies to develop partnerships to produce the nanotechnicians to supply the nanotechnology workforce necessary to create and deploy the new class of services and products being created by the nanotechnology industry.

(website in Thai only) www.thai-nano.com is a Thai website for students on all educational levels with information about nanotechnology.

The NanoTechnology Group Inc., a Texas non-profit corporation, operates as a Foundation to support the Global Consortium of members, which consistantly looks for solutions to facilitate and develop Global Nano Science Education as Virtual Classrooms online for student access as distance learning anywhere in the world.

NTI is a collaboration led by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Drexel University and The University of Pennsylvania. It is the first comprehensive model of its kind designed to facilitate the research, development and commercialization of nanotechnology's real world applications.

THREADMILL is a new Marie Curie Research Training Network (RTN) devoted to cross-disciplinary training and research at the interface between Supramolecular Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Nanoscience.

(in German only) TRACER - Toxicology and health Risk Assessment of Carbon nanomatERials - is a project to evaluate and assess the biocompatibility of carbon nanotubes along the value chain.