This is really exciting.

As competition for leadership in nanotechnology has intensified with Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the EU all matching U.S. investments in nanotechnology research, we must align nanotechnology R&D stakeholders and use our Federal…

What's an example of a diagnostic tool?

There's a company from Rice that is doing exactly that right now. It has huge implications for our energy security.

Good morning. We are really looking forward to this hearing.

And to do that cheaply, and it saves a lot of electricity.

To achieve such goals, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) should be reauthorized to help guide the translation of basic research to commercial practice.

So that can actually go into the emergency room or in places where you can see--when someone has a stroke.

Senator Boozman and I are quite honored to have the senior leadership of the full Commerce Committee here with us.

And so that kind of competitive advantage is something that I think the CNST was able to provide.

The President's proposed signature initiatives in solar energy, nanomanufacturing and nanoelectronics should not become bi-coastal research and commercialization consortia.

Is it a combination of molecules?

And so the best practices that you think that other states ought to consider would be a lot of this bringing together of private partner--public partnerships?

By the way, I was the first and only lawyer to go into space, and NASA has still not publicized that fact.

Thank you, Senator Pryor.

Dr. McLendon, give us an example on that Lockheed case where there's a Lockheed scientists with one of your scientists. What are they developing?

Amen to that. And isn't that typical of the U.S., that we get something started and then others pick it up?

Does the nanoparticle get to the submolecule level, or is it at the molecule level?