2012-05-24T14:35:23Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/nanotechnology.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070528.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

<p>This briefing was presented at the 32nd Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Forum on Science and Technology Policy on May 3-4, 2007 in Washington, D.C. It highlights findings of RAND foresight analysis of global technology trends, drivers, barriers, and social implications through 2020, highlighting, in particular, issues relevant to building science, technology and innovation capacity in developing nations.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071211.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG475.html Jun 1, 2006 Jun 1, 2006

<p>An examination of 29 countries' science and technology capacity indicates that the global technology revolution will continue unabated over the next 15 years, but some countries will be in a better position than others to take full advantage of it.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR303.html Jun 1, 2006 Jun 1, 2006

<p>An examination of 29 countries' science and technology capacity indicates that the global technology revolution will continue unabated over the next 15 years, but some countries will be in a better position than others to take full advantage of it.</p>

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2006/04/25.html Apr 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006

April 25, 2006 News Release: RAND Report Says Greater Effort Needed to Protect Workers from Health Risks Posed by Nanomaterials

http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF227.html Apr 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006

<p>The U.S. government is providing insufficient funding and other resources to understand and manage risks that nanomaterials pose to the health of workers in the rapidly growing nanotechnology industry.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050015.html Dec 31, 2004 Dec 31, 2004

<p>The integration of individual components will lead to relatively complicated materials and equipment architectures based on nanotechnology emerging from experiments currently in the laboratory.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040024.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>This paper reviews recent trends in the development and characterization of nanomaterials, which are defined as materials with a nanoscale component or structure that exerts a significant influence on properties or function.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1307.html Jan 1, 2001 Jan 1, 2001

This book discusses trends in the current global technology revolution, including genomics, cloning, biomedical engineering, smart materials, agile manufacturing, nanofabricated computation devices, and integrated microsystems.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR615.html Dec 31, 1994 Dec 31, 1994

Nanotechnologies are tools that measure and manipulate phenomena and objects at the nanoscale. Molecular manufacturing is the willful use of these two activities to create new objects or phenomena.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB7104.html Dec 31, 1993 Dec 31, 1993

To identify leading-edge technologies that could revolutionize military operations, to develop concepts of military systems that could transform warfare, and to specify the research necessary to make these systems a reality.

http://www.rand.org/about/people/k/kharel_ujwal.html

<em>Assistant Policy Analyst</em><br>M.E.M., Dartmouth College; B.E. in electrical engineering, Dartmouth College; B.A. in physics and economics, Vassar College

http://www.rand.org/about/people/l/landree_eric.html

<em>Engineer</em><br>Ph.D. in materials science and engineering, Northwestern University; B.S. in physics, Allegheny College

http://www.rand.org/about/people/s/silberglitt_richard.html

<em>Senior Physical Scientist</em><br>Ph.D. in solid state physics, University of Pennsylvania; B.S. in physics, Stevens Institute of Technology; M.S in physics, University of Pennsylvania