**EXHIBIT** **31.1**
 Certificate
        of Chief Executive Officer
 **Pursuant
        to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002**
 
 
 I,
        Marc
        W. Eller, certify that:
 
 1. I
        have
        reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
        2005 of
        Nano-Proprietary, Inc. (“NNPP”);
 
 2. Based
        on
        my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material
        fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made,
        in
        light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading
        with respect to the period covered by this report;
 
 3. Based
        on
        my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included
        in this report, fairly present, in all material respects, the financial
        condition, results of operations and cash flows of NNPP as of, and for, the
        periods presented in this report.
 
 4. NNPP’s
        other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining
        disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in the Exchange Act Rules
        13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as
        defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for NNPP and
        have:
 
 (a) Designed
        such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls
        and
        procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material
        information relating to NNPP, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is
        made
        known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period
        in
        which this report is being prepared;
 
 (b) Designed
        such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control
        over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide
        reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and
        the
        preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
        generally accepted accounting principals.
 
 (c) Evaluated
        the effectiveness of NNPP’s disclosure control’s and procedures and presented in
        this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls
        and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based
        on such
        evaluation; and
 
 (d) Disclosed
        in this report any change in NNPP’s internal control over financial reporting
        that occurred during NNPP’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially
        affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, NNPP’s internal control
        over financial reporting; and
 
 5. NNPP’s
        other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent
        evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to NNPP’s auditors and
        the audit committee of NNPP’s board of directors:
 
 (a) All
        significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation
        of
        internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
        adversely affect NNPP’s ability to record, process, summarize and report
        financial information; and
 
 (b) Any
        fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
        who
        have a significant role in NNPP’s internal control over financial
        reporting.
 
 
 Date:
        March 1, 2006
 
  /s/
        Marc W.
        Eller
 Marc
        W.
        Eller, Chairman of the Board
 and
        Chief
        Executive Officer