Nanotechnology History

By SGillard107

  • Micheal Faraday discovered colloid gold

    Showed the nanostructured gold in different lighting

  • Erwin Muller created field emission semiconductor transistor

    Showing near atomic resolution photos of materials

  • John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain found the semiconductor transistor

  • Victor La Mer and Robert Dinegar created theory for growing monodisperse colloid materials

    had the ability to create colloi9ds allows uses like specialised papers, paints, and thin films. Also diagnostic treatments

  • Erwin Muller lead the field ion microscope

  • Arthur von Hippel intoduced idea of 'molecular engineering'

  • Jack Kilby created idea, designs and the very first integated circuit

  • Richard Feynman said "There's plenty of room at the bottom"

  • Gordon Moore spoke about trends to 'Electronics' Magazine

    Talked about "Moore's Law"

  • Professor Norio Taniguchi used the word 'Nanotechnology'

    Describing the accuracy of machining materials within the atomic scale

  • Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope

    Let scientists look at single atoms for the first time

  • Alexei Ekimov discovered nanocrystalline

  • Louis Brus discovered colloidial semiconductor nanocrystals

  • Kroto arrived ar Rice Uni to work with Samalley and Curl

  • Harold Kroto, Sean O'brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley publish Buckyball findings

  • Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christoph Gerber invent atomic force microscope

    has the ability to look at, measure and comtrol materials at fractions of a nanometer in size.

  • Don Eigler and Erhard Schweizer manipulated 35 single xenon atoms spelling out the IBM logo.

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    Nanotechnology companies began to operate

  • Sumio lijima discovered the narbon nanotube

  • C.T Kresge discovered nanostructured catalytic materials MCM-41 and MCM-48

  • Moungi Bawendi invented a methid for controlling synethesis of nanocrystals

    leading the way for uses in computing to biology

  • The Interagency Working Group on Nanotechnology was formed

  • Wilson Ho and Hyojune Lee assembled a molecule for components with the scanning tunneling microscope

  • Chad Mirkin invented dip-pen nanolithography

    Which led to 'writing' electronic circuits
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    Consumer prducts using nanotechnology began appearing on the marketplace

  • President Clinton launched the 'National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)

  • Congress enacted the '21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act'

  • Naomi Halas, Jennifer West, Rebekah Drezek and Renata Pasqualin developed gold nanoshells

    Whic helped serve as a beginning for the discovery, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer

  • SUNY ALbany launched the first education progrem in nanotechnolgy

  • The European Commission adopted the communication "Towards European Strategy for Nanotechnolgy"

  • Erik Winfree and Paul Rothemund developed theories for DNA-based computation and "algorithmic self-assembly"

  • James Tour built a nanoscale car

  • Angela Belcher built lithium-ion battery

    using a common type of virus which is harmless to humans, with a low-cost, environmentally friendly process

  • First official NNI 'Strategy for Nanotechnology- Related Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Research' was published

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    Nadrian Seemand created DNA-like robotic nanoscale assembly devices

  • IBM used a silicon tip to chisel away material to form a scale of the world one-one-thousanth of a grain of salt

  • NSET updates the NNI strategic plan and the NNI EHS research strategy

  • The NNI launch 2 more NSI's

    Making a total of 5

  • The NNI begins the next stages of strategic planning

  • Stanford researchers develop first nanotube computer

  • NNI releases 2014 reveiw on the Coordinated Implementation of the NNI Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy

  • To this day nano technology and research continues to advance to benefit us in the future