(2008-01-30) Nanotech Roadmap

The Foresight Nanotech Institute has published a Nano-Tech Road Map. This Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems is a first attempt to map out the R&D pathways across multiple disciplines to achieve atomically precise manufacturing. For the past three years, working groups comprised of over 70 research scientists, nanotechnology theorists, and business leaders have collaborated to create a common framework for understanding and defining these pathways. The working groups also identified the challenges that must be overcome in the developing these systems and the applications that they can address.