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Arrays of Indefinitely long Uniform Nanowires and Nanotubes (68)

Watchlist Light-detectors made of Graphene

Nanocrystal Transformers Writing Nanostructures

Companies

News in Brief EU-Projects

Reports Events 2011/2012 Cartoon Corner Trends | Quotes Imprint 06 – 07 08 – 09

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However, the problems are just postponed into the future.What else can politicians do in order to prevent the total collapse?

If the European governments, headed by Merkel in Germany and Sarkozy in France, seriously stick

Both Europe and the US have solved their finan- cial problems on short notice. Geoffrey T. Smith comments in Wall Street Journal* and gets to the heart of the problem: “The U.S. government has addressed a short-term liquidity problem, rather than a long-term solvency one. … global investors are still more likely to cut more slack to Washing- ton than to Europe going forward.”

This is our comprehensive summer double editi- on with a great number of industry and research news. One focus is on environmental techno- logies (pages 60, 76). We also included the last report by Cientifica (Global Nanotechnology Funding 2011, page 101) that shows for nanotech the US is still the place to be although China and Russia are increasingly attractive.

The number of news on GRAPHENE is quite stri- king. That opens up the possibility for a replace- ment of e.g. silicon. Even if graphene still is a very special material it will slowly develop into a “standard” material like the nanotubes.

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