Boston meeting to examine nanotechnology contribution to national security
Nano- and microtechnolgy are developing rapidly, and have already made contributions in many different fields; it makes sense — urgent sense — to see what promise these technologies hold
Size matters, and the smaller the better. An event in Boston in a couple of weeks will bring together for the first time the world’s leading nanotechnology experts in biology and chemical defense, radiological defense, and sensors to explore and discuss how nanotechnology discoveries could help create the next generation of technologies and devices to protect the public from different threats.
The Nano/Micro Technology for National Security program will bring together scientists, engineers, physicians, academics, and government and business professionals to examine nanotechnology’s promise in a variety of high-risk public safety applications. The Nano/Micro Technology for National Security symposium will be held in conjunction with Nanotech 2006, the world’s premier multidisciplinary nanotechnology conference.
Dr. Anantha Krishnan, director of Lawrence Livermore’s R&D for Micro- and Nano-Technology unit, and one of the main drivers of the Nanotech 2006 program in Nanotech for National Security, says: “At this symposium, we’re interested in learning how national security problems might be better addressed through the use of integrated systems that may rely on nanotechnology components…. The key for us, therefore, is not to simply review the individual pieces, but to examine how difference pieces of nanotechnologies could be integrated together into next-generation solutions.”
