Size Does Matter: Nanotech Science and Application

a Monitor Networks Conversation
featuring Brent Segal, Principle, Echelon Ventures

April 28, 2005

Nanotechnology used to be the stuff of science fiction. But as the science evolves into a budding industry this fiction is becoming reality. The buzz can now be heard all over the business press: BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal. Nanotechnology provides a view into industry's smallest scale and is proving to be fertile ground for discovering startling and useful new properties with potential application to virtually every industries including materials, tools, energy and healthcare.

Nanotech frontiersman, Brent Segal will help us understand this emerging field by providing a foundation and citing real world examples with his own story of moving from the lab to the marketplace. Nantero, a company using nanotech for the development of next generation semiconductor devices, managed to introduce carbon nanotubes into a fabrication plant in 2004 - years ahead of original expectations - and is now poised to take the next step into production.