Introduction

The purpose of Nanotechnology-Profit website is to help the reader explore the exploding world of Nanotechnology. It does this through definitions, organization, fundamentals and links to the latest literature including manufacturers.

The Nanotechnology literature is enormous. Nearly every branch of technology has something about Nanotechnology. Covering it all is impossible. However, as a start the US Patents and over 300 journals are reviewed monthly for Nanotechnology literature on the Internet. These patents and articles are listed with the latest (at the time of selection) link to the internet site. Every week or so, the new additions are listed without classification for your review. In addition, The appropriate links are stored on the specific topics pages. Nanotechnology Links

Links: Links are the keys to this site. Most of the time the details will be in the Internet sites behind the links. There are limitations. The links are based on the latest information when the link is made. The Internet is a very transient. A site will be here one day and gone the next. Web addresses change and so on. A page which looked so interesting when the link was made may disappear. The ideal would be to check each link everyday but that is impossible. However, they will be checked regularly and nonworking links removed. .

The Us Patent links are the strangest. Each week, about 3000 US Patents are published on Tuesday and can be reviewed as a single list. Each number and name is linked to the text version of the patent. For weekly review, the Number, Name and link for a Nanotechnology patent from the weekly list is copied. Normally this works very well. However, there is another link which is connected to the Patent number found when a search is made on the basis of Patent Number. This link is permanent and can always be used to go to the Patent page. The first link is not permanent and may be changed at any time. Time limitations prevent us from using the permanent link. Therefore, often the link on the Nanotechnology lists will not go to the right patent page. When this happens, the solution is simple. The reader needs only to go to the top of the US Patent page and click on Patent Number. Copy the patent number to the search box and click. That will always go the right patent.

For the reader's convenience a link to the US Patent Search page using Patent numbers will be given. US Patent Number Search Page

Manufacturers In the Applications section, each time an article or patent is found for a particular application, a page will be made for that application.

When and an application has been defined, the Internet will be searched for manufacturers. The reason, is that Applications are only theoretical until there is an actual product developed. These days manufacturers are use the Internet to describe their wares. Because it is so new, they often will describe many details about the application. These links if available can really clarify the Application.

Warning: In selecting the links, the editor can only go by what is in the page and common sense with his knowledge and experience. With most journal articles, peer review tends to keep the content reasonably accurate. However, with Internet pages and in particular manufacturers pages there is no peer review. The selections for this site are made on the basis of interest. Nanotechnology-Profit does not warrant accuracy accuracy or quality of the information or products. This includes the US Patents. Each reader must judge that for themselves in light of their experience and knowledge. As always, the final test is whether something works or the ideas are supported by hard data. Everything, especially in Nanotechnology which is so dynamic must be viewed sceptically. The point of this site is learning and learning requires new untested ideas with questioning, debate and testing. Proceed with caution!! (RDC)

The Editor The editor of this site, Nanotechnology-Profit is Roger D. Corneliussen, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Materials Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia. He retired after 23 years in Materials Engineering. His PhD is in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago. Most of his career concerned Polymer Morphology beginning with Low Angle X-ray studies of polyethylene deformation. His academic career concerned Morphology, Failure Mechanisms, Polymeric Composites and Polymer Compounding. He was particularly fascinated by the development of the scanning tunneling microscopy and Fullerenes and has followed with great interest the development of Nanotechnology from those early years. Roger D. Corneliussen