Understanding science

8: Nanotechnology: exploiting the millimicro

Seminar date: 26 April 2002

• Introduction
  Professor Sir Gabriel Horn FRS

Topic 1 Engineering on the Molecular Scale

• Professor M E Welland FInstP
  The macro, micro and nano worlds
• Professor C Viney FASM
  Structures that make themselves
• Professor R H Friend FRS
  Printing plastic chips - new science - new technologies

Topic 2 Nanotechnology: Realising its promise

• Professor Dr C Gerber
  Nanomechanics: a road to a future technology
• Professor C M Dobson FRS
  Applications in biology and medicine

Topic 3 Economic Consequences

• Professor A Hughes
  Financial and human capital barriers to growth in innovative firms
• Professor J M Utterback IVA
  Nanotechnology: a disruptive technology?

The title of this document is: Understanding science: 8: Nanotechnology: exploiting the millimicro
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/nano/

Seminar presented: 26/04/2002