If you are looking for additional information on nanotechnology and advanced technologies, the following links are a good place to begin.
US National Nanotechnology Initiative
International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON)
Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (Woodrow Wilson Center)
Nanotechnology Research at Universities
Arizona State University: Applied NanoBioscience Center
Arizona State University: The Nanostuctures Research Group
Brown University: Computational Nanotechnology
Brown University: Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory
California Institute of Technology: Applied Physics at Caltech
California Institute of Technology: Roukes Research Group
Central Michigan University: The National Dendrimer & Nanotechnology Center
Columbia University: Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures
Columbia University: Center for Electronic Transport in Molecular Nanostructures
Cornell University: Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS)
Cornell University: Cornell Nanoscale Science and Fabrication Facility
Cornell University: Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC)
Georgia Institute of Technology: Nanoscience + Nanotechnology @ Georgia Tech
Harvard University: Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)
Howard University: Keck Center for the Design of Nanoscale Materials for Molecular Recognition
Illinois Institute of Nanotechnology: NELSI Global
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: National Center for Electron Microscopy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology In Depth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Nanostructures Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Space Nanotechnology
Michigan State University: NIRT - Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team on the Structure of Nanocrystals - NIRT is an NSF funded team of researchers interested in understanding the arrangement of atoms in nanometer sized objects. The collaboration comprises groups from Michigan State University, Arizona State University, Central Michigan University and Penn State University.
New York University: Ned Seeman - DNA nanotechnology
North Carolina State University/U. North Carolina: North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials
Northeastern University: Nanomanufacturing Research Institute
Northwestern University: Center for Transportation Nanotechnology
Northwestern University: Institute for Nanotechnology
Northwestern University: Institute for Nanotechnology (NSEC)
Northwestern University: Integrated Nanopatterning and Detection (NSEC)
Penn State University: Industrial Opportunities from Nanotechnology Manufacturing Technologies
Princeton University: Biologically Inspired Materials Institute (BIMat)
Princeton University: Center for Complex Materials
Princeton University: Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Purdue University: Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing
Purdue University: Nanoscale Physics
Purdue University: Nanotechnology Simulation Hub
Purdue University: Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) - The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (7 universities) has a mission to connect theory, experiment, and computation in a way that makes a difference to the future of nanotechnology. While addressing challenges in nanotechnology NCN researchers produce new algorithms, approaches, and software tools with capabilities not yet available commercially.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY): Materials Science and Engineering Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY): NSF - Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructure - The mission of the Center, housed within the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC), is to integrate research, education, and technology dissemination, and serve as a national resource for fundamental knowledge and applications, in directed assembly of nanostructures.
Rice University: Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
Rice University: Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN)
Rice University: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Rice University: Professional Master’s Program in Nanoscale physics
Rice University: The Smalley Group
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC): A National Laboratory for Computational Science
Stanford University: Stanford NanoFabrication Facility
State University of New York at Stony Brook: USB Buckyball homepage, Physics Department
University at Albany: Albany Institute of Nanotechnology
University of Albany (SUNY): Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics
University of Arkansas, University of Oklahoma: Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures
University of California: Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense (CNID)
University of California, Los Angeles: Center for Scalable and Integrated Nano-Manufacturing (SINAM)
University of California, Los Angeles: Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE)
University of California-Davis: Nanophases in the Environment, Agriculture, and Technology (NEAT)
University of California-Irvine: Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility
University of California-Los Angeles: California NanoSystems Institute
University of California-Los Angeles: Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration
University of California-Santa Barbara: California NanoSystems Institute
University of California-Santa Barbara: Nanotech Fabrication Facility
University of Central Florida: Nanoscience Technology Center
University of Delaware: Multiuniversity NSF NIRT Project
University of Florida: The Center for Structural Biology
University of Illinois: National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors - The center is based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Partner institutions include Yale University, University of Southern California, University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sandia National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, Oxford University, Wabash College, University of California, Davis, nanoHUB at Purdue University, and the University of New Mexico.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Michigan: Center for Biologic Nanotechnology
University of Michigan: Life Sciences at Michigan
University of Minnesota: Center for Nano-Energetics Research,
University of North Carolina: Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) - CCNE goal is to design and fabricate novel and innovative, multifunctional nanodevices and then test their in vivo performance using sophisticated mouse models of human cancer.
University of North Carolina: Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation
University of North Carolina: Nanoscale Science Education Center
University of North Carolina: Nanoscale Science Research Group
University of North Carolina: North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials
University of Notre Dame: Center for Nano Science and Technology
University of Oregon: Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative (SNNI) - The goals of the SNNI are to develop new nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing approaches that offer a high level of performance, yet pose minimal harm to human health or the environment.
University of South Carolina: Center for the Philosophy and Ethics of Complexity and Scale (CPECS)
University of South Carolina: USC NanoCenter
University of Southern California: The Laboratory for Molecular Robotics
University of Texas at Austin: Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology
University of Virginia: Center for Nanoscopic Materials Design
University of Washington: Center for Nanotechnology
University of Washington: DURINT - Bioimimetics
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Center for Nanotechnology
Virginia Tech: Center for Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Devices
Widener University: Chemistry Department