The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer and a copyright notice . The challenge for research is to take it from the laboratory to the market-place. The presentations will take place in the Chambre de Commerce with interpretation between English and French. Representatives of the European Commission and the National Science Foundation will then present the EU and US nanotechnology research programmes. The presenters will be available for interviews over lunch.
Nanotechnology consists of applying the science of the small.
It is inherently multi-disciplinary, and involves physicists, chemists and biologists in studying, researching and engineering ever smaller and smaller structures. Although the science is still in its infancy, the first nanotechnology products are already on the market. Current applications Current applications include new semiconductor lasers and random access memories based on giant magnetoresistance. The bio-chip arrays now being produced are a powerful diagnostic product of nanotechnology and biotechnology and are currently used in high throughput screening for detecting disease, as well as for gene sequencing in the Human Genome Project. Nano-biotechnology will provide biosensors and biomaterials.