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Zyvex. 2. Nick Smith, Chairman House Subcommittee on Basic Research June 22, 1999. In Fiscal Year 1999, the federal government will spend approximately $230 million on nanotechnology research.. Zyvex. 3. National Nanotechnology Initiative. Interagency (AFOSR, ARO, BMDO, DARPA, DOC, DOE, NASA, NIH,
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1. Zyvex 1 Molecular Nanotechnologywww.zyvex.com/nano Ralph C. Merkle
Principal Fellow, Zyvex
www.merkle.com
2. Zyvex 2 Nick Smith, ChairmanHouse Subcommittee on Basic ResearchJune 22, 1999 In Fiscal Year 1999, the federal government will spend approximately $230 million on nanotechnology research.
3. Zyvex 3 National Nanotechnology Initiative Interagency (AFOSR, ARO, BMDO, DARPA, DOC, DOE, NASA, NIH, NIST, NSF, ONR, and NRL)
Congressional hearings
Objective: double funding through existing channels
4. Zyvex 4 Academic and Industry Caltech’s MSC (1999 Feynman Prize), Rice CNST (Smalley), USC Lab for Molecular Robotics, etc
Private nonprofit (Foresight, IMM)
Private for profit (IBM, Zyvex, Covalent)
And many more….
5. Zyvex 5 There is a growing sense in the scientific and technical community that we are about to enter a golden new era.
Richard Smalley
1996 Nobel Prize, Chemistry
http://www.house.gov/ science/smalley_062299.htm
6. Zyvex 6 The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom. It is not anattempt to violate any laws; it is something, in principle, that can be done; but in practice, it has not been done because we are toobig. Richard Feynman, 1959