Nano bucks Union man Andy Stern, head of America's largest and fastest-growing labor union, wants to balance the scales of economic power.
Nanotechnology manipulates atoms and molecules to create new and smaller products.
The Nanotechnology Center will be co-directed by David E. Luzzi, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Penn's Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, and Kambiz Pourrezaei, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University. Nanotechnology requires cross-disciplinary research involving physicists, chemists and computer scientists. He predicts a dramatic growth in its applications in the coming decade. Applications may include microscopic capsules that selectively deliver drugs to tumors and electronic circuits a fraction of their current size.