Gold Innovations Blog

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (“NNI”) has just published its Supplement to the President’s FY 2011 Budget that was submitted to Congress on February 1, 2010. This document describes ongoing NNI activities for 2010, and plans that a variety of government agencies in NNI have in the pipeline for 2011 based upon the proposed budget. Major areas of focus include nanomedicine, solar energy technologies, nanoelectronics and manufacturing issues.

As you can see above, the cover of the document has a generous splash of gold. The images were provided by the prominent Northwestern researchers Teri Odom and Yonggang Huang, and illustrate golden nanopyramids and twistable electronics.