Automobile industry Quote by Mildred Dresselhaus

If we had improved materials that could be produced cheaply and in large quantities, certainly the thermoelectrics industry could move forward more quickly.

— Mildred Dresselhaus

In the process of making nanomaterials, we learned that with the electronic density of states, the phonon electronic properties and everything change at the…

— Mildred Dresselhaus

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in…

— George M. Whitesides

One of the issues in electronics is that we work only in two scales - transistors and collections of transistors - and that's the…

— George M. Whitesides

Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out…

— Paul McEuen

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of…

— Paul McEuen

When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or…

— Steve Jurvetson

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on…

— K. Eric Drexler

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

— Rudy Rucker

I always felt that Nano should have been marketed towards the owner of a two-wheeler because it was conceived giving the people who rode…

— Ratan Tata

Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built environment. I'd…

— Denis Hayes

There's a book of interviews with John Cage by Joan Retallack called Musicage that was finished the summer that he died, in 1992. And…

— David Grubbs