Future Trends

Magazine articles on future trends in science.

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Industrial Physicist Avouris & Appenzeller	Electronics and Optoelectronics with Carbon Nanotubes Evaluating the potential of carbon nanotubes as the basis of a future nanoelectronics technology.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Solar Crystals Get 2-for-1 Ordinary solar cells are designed to generate one electron for every photon they absorb. Solar cells made from nanocrystals open another possibility -- two electrons for every photon -- that promises to boost the potential amount of energy that can be harvested from the sun.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Eric Smalley	Shape-Shifting Remakes Interfaces A lump of clay/television remote combination may seem like childs play, but it also summarizes a research effort that aims to transform the very nature of input devices. The goal is to make controls that users can reshape on-the-fly in order to change the controls' functions.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Evolution Trains Robot Teams Using evolution to teach robots complex behavior could eventually give them the ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments. There's a long way to go, but researchers are laying a foundation.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004	Nanotube Makes Metal Transistor Researchers from the University of Illinois have found a way to produce a field effect in a metallic single-wall carbon nanotube that conducts electricity 40 times more efficiently than copper. The metal transistor could be used in practical applications in five to ten years.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004	Junctions Expand Nano Railroads Researchers from the University of Washington and Sandia National Laboratories have co-opted cell proteins for use in track networks that can be integrated into nanotechnology devices to shuttle tiny amounts of materials around.
Wired May 2004	NextFest: The Shape of Things to Come A celebration of the cars, spacecraft, gadgets, drugs, and TV of the future, including: extreme ads & TiVo tribes, Nanobombs & microbots, and 5 designs for the dream machines of 2014.
Managed Care April 2004 Thomas Morrow	Transdermal Patches Are More Than Skin Deep After modest beginnings, transdermal patches are now taking advantage of nanotechnology and other novel techniques to improve drug delivery.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Spoke Polarization Tightens Focus Conventional wisdom holds that you can't focus light much beyond half its wavelength, which has computer chipmakers scrambling to work out how to use extreme ultraviolet and x-rays to make smaller circuits. But scientists are coming up with tricks for getting around this not-so-fundamental limit.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Eric Smalley	Molecule Makes Electric Motor Researchers have built molecules that can spin on command, but finding a way to harness this molecular motion to carry out work is more difficult. A molecule that has a limited range of motion opens up new possibilities.
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